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Manager, AI Platform Engineering

Ripple - Chicago, IL, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-17

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Salary: USD 200,000 - 250,000 / annual

Ripple is seeking a Manager of AI Platform Engineering to lead the development and delivery of GSmart, an AI platform powering smart features across enterprise treasury products. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape the future of AI infrastructure at a fintech company building solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers. You will own the AI platform roadmap end-to-end, ensuring measurable and dependable AI systems. You'll work closely with product and solution teams to translate customer challenges into technical solutions, while building and mentoring a platform AI engineering team. The role balances strategic leadership with hands-on technical contribution—you'll stay actively involved in architecture decisions and full-stack production code. Key responsibilities include: - Owning the AI platform roadmap and delivery end-to-end - Ensuring platform AI is measurable and dependable - Collaborating with product and solution teams to address customer challenges - Enabling teams to build on the platform and own their deliverables - Hiring, mentoring, and growing the platform AI engineering team - Staying actively involved in architecture and full-stack production code The company offers a fast-paced startup environment with experienced industry leaders, professional development support, flexible in-office collaboration (10+ days per month), competitive salary and equity, comprehensive benefits including healthcare and family support, R&R days, generous vacation policy, and industry-leading parental leave. REQUIREMENTS: - 7+ years of software engineering experience, including full-stack development and AI/ML platform infrastructure - 2+ years of engineering management experience - Strong full-stack development skills (front-end, back-end, APIs) with solid cloud infrastructure experience - Experience operating AI systems in production - Deep, current command of AI and modern LLM/GenAI infrastructure

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