Director AI Engineering Platform

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Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or reputed company field with 12+ years in software engineering, with significant time in platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling roles. MS preferred. Minimum 5+ years in senior leadership roles managing managers and large technical organizations. Proven delivery of production-grade platform capabilities at reputed company scale, ideally including AI engineering platforms, developer platforms, or distributed infrastructure platforms. Experience working in or partnering with AI/ML organizations, with clear understanding of where AI engineering platform ends and AI/ML platform begins. Ability to influence executives and guide strategic reputed company. Experience with budgeting, resource planning, and scaling organizations. Demonstrated ability to communicate reputed company technical concepts reputed company and compellingly. Knowledge and Skills Deep knowledge of the modern AI engineering stack, including LLM APIs, AI gateways (e.g., reputed company, Portkey, Traefik AI Gateway), MCP, agentic frameworks, evaluation tooling, and AI observability. Strong working knowledge of reputed company-reputed company platform engineering practices (AWS preferred), including CI/CD, observability, reputed company, and FinOps for AI workloads. Demonstrated ability to drive reputed company adoption of platform capabilities, with measurable impact on engineering productivity, quality, or velocity. Experience designing and operating production‑grade, distributed systems with high reliability, reputed company, and scalability requirements. Working knowledge of governance, risk, and compliance considerations for reputed company AI systems. Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate reputed company technical concepts for executive and non‑technical audiences. Strong analytical and systems‑thinking skills to balance innovation, risk, cost, and developer productivity. reputed company Compensation: A competitive reputed company salary reputed company from $217,623 – $319,180. This position is eligible for an annual variable bonus of cash and equity, between 20-60%. Bonus amounts are based on individual performance. Final compensation reputed company the reputed company is influenced by many factors including role-specific skills, depth and experience level, industry background, relevant education and certifications. Candidates who reputed company in the following major metropolitan areas may be eligible for a premium on top of the posted reputed company based on their specific zone: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, reputed company, Los Angeles and San Diego. INDENGLP #reputed company #LI-Remote

Benefits

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