Director AI Engineering Platform
Core
Lead the strategy, architecture, and operations of the AI engineering platform to enable software teams to build with AI safely and at scale.
Role type
Director, AI Engineering Platform
Builds
Foundational AI platform capabilities, AI gateways, model access infrastructure, and agentic development tooling.
Domain
Enterprise AI Engineering, Cloud-Native Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic leadership, platform architecture, AI engineering stack (LLM APIs, MCP, agentic frameworks), cloud-native practices (AWS), CI/CD, FinOps, governance and risk management, team building and mentorship.
Preferred skills
MS in Computer Science or Engineering, experience with distributed systems, budgeting and resource planning.
Technologies
AWS, LiteLLM, Portkey, Traefik AI Gateway, MCP, Databricks
Responsibilities
Define and communicate the vision for the AI engineering platform; own the multi-year roadmap and cost discipline for AI capabilities; enable engineering teams to adopt AI-assisted and agentic development practices; establish engineering standards for security, data privacy, and model lifecycle management; build and mentor a high-performing organization of engineering managers and specialists.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical oversight
