AI Development Manager

Role overview

Position responsibilities

• Deliver reusable platform-level AI/ML services, components, harnesses, agents, and tools for customer-facing products.
• Develop AI safety guardrails and evaluation frameworks with AI Governance leadership.
• Enable product teams to adopt shared capabilities and meet safety, quality, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate across Boeing functions and align Digital Services delivery with enterprise requirements.
• Set technical strategies and delivery roadmaps with product and platform management.
• Manage, coach, motivate, and recruit employees and contractors across data and software disciplines.
• Guide work from ideas and requirements through deployment and operation; track adoption, quality, reliability, and business value.

Required qualifications

• At least 1 year of leadership experience, or completion of Boeing's internal “Exploring Leadership” course.
• At least 5 years delivering commercial AI/ML, data science, or analytics solutions, including production deployment.
• At least 3 years in an AI/ML, data science, or analytics leadership role.
• At least 1 year delivering agentic AI services or capabilities.
• Experience implementing production AI safety, quality, and governance frameworks.
• Ability to build cross-functional relationships, influence stakeholders, and communicate technical decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Consent to Canadian Government Controlled Goods Program assessment; eligibility to handle US export-controlled data; legal authorization to work in Canada.

Preferred qualifications

• Computer science or related bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading AI platform or enablement capabilities for multiple products or teams and collaborating across a large organization.
• Cloud experience such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, particularly Azure Databricks; experience with RAG, knowledge graphs, or GraphRAG.
• Software development management experience and aviation-domain experience.

Work arrangement

• Based in Boeing's Richmond, British Columbia office with a hybrid arrangement combining remote and in-office work.
• This is a locally hired Canadian position, not an expatriate assignment.

Pay and benefits

• The stated salary pay range is CAD 108,000 to CAD 193,000; the posting does not specify a pay cadence.
• Benefits include base pay and incentive programs, tuition assistance, career development resources, and eligible nonprofit contribution matching.

Additional conditions

• Successful candidates must satisfy the company's Conflict of Interest assessment process.
• The position requires an active or obtainable Canadian Government Controlled Goods Program assessment.
• The employer will not sponsor employment visa status.
• Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit.