Manager, Forward-Deployed AI Engineer — AI Mobilization & Transformation
Mastercard3 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $266k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with business units to identify high-value AI opportunities and lead discovery, solution design, implementation, and capability-building engagements.
- Design and deploy production-ready AI assistants, agents, multi-agent solutions, and orchestration frameworks for business workflows.
- Create reusable AI patterns, reference architectures, playbooks, training assets, implementation approaches, and transformation stories.
- Coach engineers, analysts, product managers, knowledge workers, and operational teams through hands-on delivery, workshops, and train-the-trainer programs.
- Establish AI evaluation, observability, governance, monitoring, and responsible-AI practices for operationalized solutions.
- Document lessons learned, measure adoption and business impact, and share organizational learning across business and engineering teams.
- Mentor technical talent and influence stakeholders across technical and business functions to drive sustainable AI adoption.
Requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience building and deploying production-grade systems.
- Deep experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG architectures, orchestration patterns, and AI application development.
- Experience building and deploying enterprise AI solutions with measurable business outcomes.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, communication, stakeholder-influence, and organizational-change abilities.
- Experience translating business challenges into practical AI applications and redesigning workflows with business stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring technical talent and driving technology adoption through hands-on engagement.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI, governance, risk management, and production monitoring practices.
- Experience documenting repeatable patterns, implementation approaches, and best practices.
- Experience with Copilot Studio, Azure AI, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent platforms is preferred.
- Financial services, payments, or enterprise transformation experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and potential annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending account, and health savings account benefits.
- Paid leaves including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave.
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, 5 personal days, and 10 annual paid U.S. holidays.
- 401(k) with company match and deferred compensation for eligible roles.
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, tuition reimbursement eligibility, and other benefits.
- The posting states that Mastercard intends to fill the position by 02/07/2027.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).