Associate Manager - AI/NLP Engineering

• Manage and direct the day-to-day work of a small team of data engineers, reviewing output alongside personal delivery responsibilities.
• Operate extensively within Claude Code and other governed, AI-powered development workflows, applying guardrails such as safe-zone scoping and critically reviewing agent-generated plans.
• Build and operate natural language processing (NLP) pipelines at scale that ingest, parse, chunk, embed, and extract metadata/entities from millions of documents, and extract insights via Large Language Models (LLMs) or NLP models.
• Ramp quickly on unfamiliar codebases using documentation and skills files as the primary source of context.
• Apply strong applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals to assess solution feasibility and challenge technical proposals.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and negotiations, securing specialist sign-off and communicating trade-offs or interim delivery options.
• Exercise sound technical judgment, escalating and pushing back on unrealistic scope or timelines rather than overpromising. 

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in natural language processing (NLP) experience with an AI focus, applied at scale has built or operated pipelines that ingest millions of documents, prepare them to be AI-ready (parsing, chunking, embedding, metadata/entity extraction), and extract insights via LLMs or NLP models from unstructured text.
• Hands-on Cloude Code experience a core requirement, has worked in a governed AI-powered workflow, understands guardrails such as safe-zone scoping, and can critically review agent-generated plans. Evidence of real usage is required.
• Strong applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals enough to assess solution feasibility and challenge technical proposals.
• People management experience comfortable directing and reviewing the work of junior team members alongside their own responsibilities.
• Travel: minimal (up to 10%).
• Work model: Hybrid (Czech Republic).

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