Director of Engineering, AI Platform
Core
Lead the AI Platform organization building foundational systems for retrieval, model serving, inference, and evaluation to power agentic enterprise software workflows.
Role type
Director of Engineering, AI Platform
Builds
AI platform infrastructure including search/retrieval systems, model serving pipelines, inference infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks for enterprise customers.
Domain
Enterprise SaaS / Artificial Intelligence / Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering leadership (managing managers), AI infrastructure architecture, model serving and inference optimization, cost-per-execution management, RAG and agentic frameworks, vendor strategy, cross-functional partnership
Preferred skills
Asynchronous communication, distributed team leadership, evidence-based decision making, platform mindset
Technologies
LLMs, RAG, inference providers, open-weight models, frontier models
Responsibilities
Drive multi-year technical strategy for AI platform, optimize infrastructure costs and unit economics, establish AI evaluation frameworks, lead and mentor engineering managers, manage model portfolio strategy, architect AI infrastructure, partner cross-functionally with product and finance
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership
