Software Development Manager, MCP/AI

Responsibilities

• Hire, build, and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering team — including ML/AI talent new to the organization — through coaching, feedback, and performance management.
• Foster a culture of ownership, quality, experimentation, and responsible AI.
• Own delivery of team commitments: plan, prioritize, and ship the Viewer MCP and agentic capabilities predictably and at high quality.
• Set and drive the technical strategy and roadmap for the agentic platform, partnering with your Principal/Senior engineers on architecture and trust models (human-in-the-loop, review gates, traceability, confidence signaling).
• Partner across the Visualization Solutions Org — and with Product, UX, Applied AI, and other platform teams — to expose their capabilities through a shared agentic layer and align on a common direction.
• Establish how the team evaluates AI systems — quality, safety, latency, and cost — and embed evaluation into the delivery process.
• Ensure engineering best practices: code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and production support for AI-powered services.
• Identify risks, remove blockers, and communicate progress, trade-offs, and outcomes clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Define approaches in a green-field space where established procedures don't yet exist.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years leading or managing software engineers, plus 7+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Proven track record delivering complex, production-grade systems and services.
• Experience building or leading teams that ship AI/ML-powered products — e.g. LLM/agentic workflows, recommendation/insights systems, or ML in production.
• Working understanding of LLMs and agentic workflows, and of how to evaluate AI systems.
• Strong grounding in modern software practices: cloud-native architectures, APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, and Agile delivery.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience standing up or scaling a new team or a new technical competency in an organization.
• Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent orchestration frameworks, or composable tool/capability architectures.
• Experience with data platforms and ML infrastructure (eval pipelines, feature/data stores, model serving) and with cloud (AWS, containers).
• Familiarity with 2D/3D visualization, CAD/BIM, rendering, or graphics technologies.
• Experience partnering with Applied AI / research teams to bring models into production.

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