The Manager, R&D – AI Proactive Defense leads the design and development of artificial intelligence–driven proactive defense systems focused on fraud detection and analytics, risk analysis, and anomaly detection for Arctic Wolf’s cybersecurity platform. This role manages a team of engineers to build agent‑based frameworks for reasoning and orchestration, develop and operate ML pipelines for scalable model training and deployment, and architect automated workflows that integrate data ingestion, feature generation, and intelligent response mechanisms. The manager partners closely with data science, threat intelligence, and platform engineering teams to translate detection logic into low‑latency, production‑ready systems, applying large language models and autonomous AI agents for pattern recognition, entity linking, and context‑aware decision‑making. They drive execution of the engineering roadmap, ensure alignment with organizational goals, mentor and develop engineers, and uphold best practices in automation, observability, and continuous improvement.