Associate Manager, AI/NLP Engineering
Quick Facts Role: Associate Manager, AI/NLP Engineering Focus: Hands-on delivery of AI-powered data engineering workflows + small-team people management Description You will lead day-to-day work for a small team of data engineers while also delivering personally. The role requires operating in governed, agentic development environments (including guardrails like safe-zone scoping) and building scalable NLP pipelines that make unstructured content AI-ready. You will review junior work, assess feasibility with stakeholders, and negotiate realistic scope, trade-offs, and timelines.
Responsibilities
Manage and direct day-to-day delivery of a small data engineering team Review and direct junior engineers’ output while maintaining hands-on delivery Work extensively in Claude Code and other governed AI development workflows with appropriate guardrails Build and operate large-scale NLP pipelines to ingest, parse, chunk, embed, and extract metadata/entities from millions of documents Extract insights via LLMs or NLP models from unstructured text Ramp quickly on unfamiliar codebases using documentation and skills files Use applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals to evaluate feasibility and challenge proposals Coordinate with specialist stakeholders for sign-off and communicate trade-offs or interim delivery options Push back on unrealistic scope/timelines rather than overpromising Requirements BA/BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience 5+ years of AI-focused NLP experience building/operating pipelines at scale (millions of documents) for parsing, chunking, embedding, metadata/entity extraction, and insight extraction with LLMs/NLP models Hands-on Claude Code experience ( core requirement ) with governed AI workflows and ability to critically review agent-generated plans Strong applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals to assess feasibility and challenge technical proposals People management experience directing and reviewing junior engineers alongside your own responsibilities Minimal travel (up to 10%)
Benefits
Complete benefits package: 25 days holidays, 4 sick days, meal allowance, lifestyle/leisure benefit allowance, and annually reviewed company-wide closures (Unplug Day 19 Aug 2026; Global Shutdown 24 Dec–1 Jan inclusive) Volunteering day Individualized culture to explore new areas beyond your specialty and stay engaged with preferred work Professional, globally respected market research and advisory firm; initiative leading to results is rewarded