# Senior Manager, AI Engineering and Operations

The Senior Manager of AI Engineering at EchoStar leads the engineering teams responsible for building, deploying, and scaling the next-generation AI ecosystem. This forward-looking leadership position focuses on solving complex challenges in Agentic AI application engineering, intelligent orchestration, and multi-agent system productionalization. The role addresses the need for enterprise-grade scalability by overseeing core Databricks on AWS platform operations that empower advanced LLM-driven capabilities. Reporting directly to the Head of AI Engineering, this position shapes the technical direction of AI during a period of rapid organizational expansion. What Success Looks Like (Objectives): Spearhead the architecture, development, and productionalization of advanced Agentic AI applications, multi-agent systems, and intelligent workflows Direct-line manage engineering managers and a growing team of junior, mid-level, and senior engineers; drive hiring, onboarding, and technical mentorship as the team expands its application capabilities Provide executive and architectural oversight for the core AI/ML platform (Databricks on AWS), ensuring a highly stable, secure, and optimized e

- **Id**: 4245384
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/echostar-senior-manager-ai-engineering-and-operations>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Littleton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-29T22:10:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:29:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 44
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9234
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Internet Service Providers

## Company

- **Id**: 1846584
- **Name**: EchoStar
- **Domain**: echostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/echostar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

## Salary

- **Min**: 154275
- **Max**: 208725
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 208725

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 44

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Management years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: yes
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:25:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 17
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.595
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 44
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T15:40:20Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 208725
- **Is top pay**: yes

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