Thrivent is seeking an experienced AI Engineering Manager to help lead the team that builds Thrivent’s enterprise AI/ML platform — the capabilities that product delivery teams across the organization use to develop, deploy, and operate AI solutions spanning classical machine learning, LLM/RAG applications, and agentic systems. The platform is built on Databricks for machine learning and data science and on AWS for production serving, with Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker powering LLM workloads. The team operates in a product operating model: the platform is the product, delivery teams are its customers, and the team partners with Product Management to drive a capability roadmap measured by adoption and business outcomes.

This leader will inherit a working foundation — governed workspaces, feature stores, retrieval and RAG services, and standardized batch and real-time model serving — and help drive the platform’s next phases: evaluation and observability for LLM and agentic syste...