REMOTE - AI Engineering Manager (Databricks)

Overview

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good!REMOTE:Qualified candidates living outside a 50-mile radius of a hub location listed below can plan to work remote.HYBRID: Qualified candidates living within a 50-mile radius of a hub location listed below should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.

HUB LOCATIONS

Bloomington, IL; Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; or Tempe, AZSPONSORSHIP: Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity. Responsibilities:

Lead a team of 3-5 embedded agentic engineers who work inside Product Oriented Delivery pods, helping engineers, analysts, and product owners ship twice as fast with twice the quality through agentic workflows. You'll build the agentic harness tuned to our existing infrastructure, write code alongside your team, run the developer community, and ensure a steady stream of innovation projects make it to production on DatabricksWhat You'll Own* *Team Leadership (30%)* – Hire, manage, and grow 3-5 embedded engineers. 1:1s, career development, removing blockers. You code 30-40% of the time. * *Agentic Harness (25%)* – Build the agentic harness tuned to our infrastructure – hooks, connectors, and integrations with Claude for code quality checks, artifact generation, and next-best-action guidance through the SDLC. * *Databricks Solutions (20%)* – Production templates for Medallion pipelines, Unity Catalog governance, MLflow, PySpark. Not PoCs – real systems with monitoring and runbooks. * *Developer Community (15%)* – Demos, office hours, pattern libraries. Measure adoptio...