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Director — FDE Office (Forward Deployed Engineering)

Austin, USFull-time$191k2026-10-12 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead a blended team of internal engineers and contractors to incubate, industrialize, and operationalize AI-powered agentic workflows across HR, IT, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing domains.

Role type

Director of Forward Deployed Engineering (AI/Agentic Workflows)

Builds

Enterprise AI agents, agentic workflows, and reusable platform components for business domains

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing / Enterprise AI / Agentic workflows

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

People leadership, portfolio management, architecture direction, budget stewardship, enterprise AI strategy, stakeholder engagement, production readiness, risk management

Preferred skills

Enterprise AI agents, MCP servers, LLM platforms, AI tokenomics, cloud FinOps, enterprise architecture frameworks

Technologies

AWS, Azure, GCP, ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, Microsoft Graph, Redpanda ADP, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, LangGraph, CrewAI, Entra ID

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a blended workforce of internal and contractor engineers; own the AI portfolio and intake governance; set technical direction for enterprise AI agents; manage budget and AI tokenomics visibility; serve as trusted advisor to C-suite; ensure production readiness and operational compliance

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical fluency