Senior Engineering Manager – AI Advanced Development at World Wide Technology Holding, LLC
Maryland Heights, MO
$140,400–$210,000from the description
Aug 18, 2026
Maryland Heights, MO
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership and hands-on AI engineering: the person hired will lead senior engineers, set technical direction for AI-native initiatives, and personally build working systems — not just direct others. Day-to-day work centers on LLM integration, agent and retrieval architectures, evaluation harnesses, and automation workflows, with a strong expectation of communicating tradeoffs and recommendations directly to executive audiences.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 7,300–37,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The job title is not stated in the posting; the role is classified as a people-management position (11-3021) because it explicitly requires leading and hiring senior engineers and setting technical direction. However, the equally strong emphasis on personally building systems and hands-on AI engineering makes 15-1252 a credible alternative — hence the runner-up code.
The posting lists 'containerized deployment' as a required capability but names no specific container technology; Docker and Kubernetes are listed as the canonical tools for that requirement.
'event-driven systems' is a named architectural pattern explicitly called out in the required qualifications and is retained as a concrete technical requirement.
Location is fully remote (#LI-REMOTE) with no primary metro specified; salary range varies by geography.
Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering is listed as 'preferred' and equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
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