# Engineering Manager

**Company**: Forward Networks
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $239,200/yr. - $249,200/yr.
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Forward Networks is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the architecture, research, and development of machine learning systems powering AI features within the Forward platform.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee design and implementation of large language model-based systems enabling natural-language interaction with the platform's network digital twin.

- Lead development of an agentic AI system that enables users to interact with the Forward platform using natural language and automate complex network analysis workflows.

- Guide the design for system components enabling large language models to interpret user intent, plan multi-step workflows, invoke platform APIs and query engines, and synthesize results using trusted network digital-twin data.

- Plan and manage long-term AI initiatives, track development progress, and coordinate execution of large-scale machine learning and platform engineering projects.

- Coordinate development work across machine learning, backend, and frontend engineering teams to deliver AI-driven capabilities within the Forward Enterprise platform.

- Collaborate with product management and user-experience teams to define feature requirements, incorporate user feedback, and guide technical implementation of AI features.

- Manage and mentor machine learning engineers responsible for AI system development.

- Serve as the primary point of contact for production issues involving AI features within the platform.

- Monitor system performance, triage incidents, and oversee continuous improvement of deployed AI systems.

Education and Experience Required: Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 24 months of experience.

Salary: $239,200/yr. - $249,200/yr.

## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- AI
- network digital twin
- large language models

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