Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy.

We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. For more information, visit www.blend360.com We are seeking an AI Engineering Manager to contribute to our next level of growth and expansion.

Leadership and Delivery Lead project delivery end to end, with clear governance, stakeholder communication, and accountability for outcomes

Build and mentor a high-performing AI engineering team, establishing technical standards and fostering a culture of quality and pragmatism

Own proposals and new business initiatives, defining technical feasibility and communicating risks and tradeoffs clearly to clients

Define what AI systems should and should not attempt, setting realistic expectations and being upfront about limitations

Conduct technical reviews and architectural assessments to maintain high standards across projects and team

AI Development Guide the design and delivery of RAG systems, agentic frameworks, and LLM-powered solutions that are robust enough for production

Lead the application of advanced prompt engineering techniques including instruction design, few-shot sets, structured outputs, and tool/agent prompts

Run feasibility assessments to choose the right approach for each problem: prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, or classical ML

Mentor engineers on end-to-end AI system design and production deployment practices

Evaluation and Quality Design evaluation frameworks including LLM-as-a-judge approaches, metric creation (recall@k,



precision@k), and go/no-go gates

Lead structured experiments across prompts, retrievers, chunking strategies, and models, grounded in evidence not intuition

Establish team practices for identifying and categorising model failures including hallucinations, retrieval misses, and instruction-following errors

Set quality standards that ensure AI systems meet production reliability requirements

MLOps and Infrastructure Build scalable inference infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML models that support rapid iteration and reliable deployment

Automate the full MLOps/LLMOps lifecycle: tracking, versioning, deployment, monitoring, and retraining across the team

Design APIs, microservices, and orchestration layers optimised for latency, cost, and reliability

Lead infrastructure decisions that balance technical excellence with business efficiency Qualifications What We Are Looking For 7+ years building and deploying AI solutions in production environments

2+ years of direct team leadership or technical management experience

Expert Python proficiency, strong Git practices, and experience with ML/LLM versioning and deployment

Solid cloud experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP—preference for Azure—plus containerisation and orchestration knowledge

Hands-on RAG experience covering chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and evaluation

Proven MLOps/LLMOps track record using tools like MLflow, Weights and Biases, or similar

Practical evaluation design skills: metrics, dataset curation, and structured experimentation

Experience with event-driven architectures, APIs,



and microservices A clear communicator equally comfortable with engineering teams and senior stakeholders

Strong hiring and team-building instincts with proven mentoring experience

What about languages?

English: Advanced (required for effective communication with general teams and client leadership). How much experience must I have? 7+ years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience in production environments, with 2+ years of direct team leadership or technical management responsibility. Nice to Have Databricks MLOps platform

LLM fine-tuning experience

Building agentic GenAI systems

Infrastructure as Code

Security and observability for AI services

Classical ML background

Open-source contributions Additional Information Our Perks and Benefits: ? Learning Opportunities: Certifications in AWS (we are AWS Partners), Databricks, and Snowflake

Access to AI learning paths to stay up to date with the latest technologies

Study plans, courses, and additional certifications tailored to your role

Access to Udemy Business, offering thousands of courses to boost your technical and soft skills

English lessons to support your professional communication

??‍? Travel opportunities to attend industry conferences and meet clients ?‍? Mentoring and Development: Career development plans and mentorship programs to help shape your path

? Celebrations & Support: Special day rewards to celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries, and other personal milestones

Company-provided equipment

⚖️ Flexible working options to help you strike the right balance Other benefits may vary according to your location in LATAM. For detailed information regarding the benefits applicable to your specific location, please consult with one of our recruiters. So what are the next steps? Our team is eager to learn about you! Send us your resume or LinkedIn profile below and we'll explore working together!

📌 AI Engineering Manager (Santiago)
🏢 Blend
📍 Santiago