Principal Engineer - AI at Egnyte · Remote only · 8 - 20 years · Profitable · Remote only · Posted 3 Aug 2026

Position :Principal Engineer - AI
Location : Remote, India
EGNYTE YOUR CAREER. SPARK YOUR PASSION.
Egnyte is a place where we spark opportunities for amazing people. We believe that every role has meaning, and every Egnyter should be respected. With 17,000 customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, you’re not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters who doers, thinkers, and collaborators are who embrace and live by our values:
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Candid Conversations
ABOUT EGNYTE
Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 22,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit
www.egnyte.com.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Egnyte is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. The Engineering department builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte's Cloud Platform. Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment. We process and analyze millions of files and events on a daily basis. Some of the responsibilities for this department include Egnyte's Cloud File System, Content Classification, Content Lifecycle Management, User Behavior Analysis, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets. We are looking for candidates with a shared passion for building large-scale distributed systems and a keen sense for tackling complexities that come with scaling through multiple orders of magnitude.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
- Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex design and architecture details
- Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
- Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
- Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with history of technical innovation
- Experience providing technical leadership to engineers
Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have)
- Breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
- Demonstrated success in designing and developing large scale, complex systems
- Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired
BENEFITS
- Competitive salaries
- Medical insurance and healthcare benefits for you and your family
- Fully paid premiums for life insurance
- Flexible hours and PTO
- Gym reimbursement
- Childcare reimbursement
- Group term life insurance
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION:
At Egnyte, we celebrate our differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.

About Egnyte
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Egnyte provides secure Enterprise File Sharing and Content Governance built from the Cloud down. Access, Share and Control 100% of your data from anywhere using any smartphone, tablet or computer.
Egnyte store billion of files and petabytes of data and we are looking for help to take the platform used by millions of users to the next level of scale. Autonomy and ownership is integral to our culture and engineers own one or more services end to end.
We’re looking for Engineers and they should be able to take a complex problem and work with product managers, devops and other team members to execute end to end.
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Location : India, Remote
Job Description
Egnyte is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. The Engineering department builds large distributed components and services that run Egnyte's Cloud Platform. Our code serves billions of requests per day with sub-second latency in a fault-tolerant environment. We process and analyze millions of files and events daily. Some of the responsibilities for this department include Egnyte's Cloud File System, Content Classification, Content Lifecycle Management, User Behavior Analysis, Object Store, Metadata Stores, Search Systems, Recommendations Systems, Synchronization, and intelligent caching of multi-petabyte datasets. We are looking for candidates with a shared passion for building large-scale distributed systems and a keen sense for tackling complexities that come with scaling through multiple orders of magnitude.
In this role, you will (But are not limited to):
- Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
- Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex design and architecture details
- Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
- Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
- Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with a history of technical innovation
- Experience providing technical leadership to engineers
Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have)
- The breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
- Demonstrated success in designing and developing large-scale, complex systems
- Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired
About Egnyte
In a content critical age, Egnyte fuels business growth by enabling content-rich business processes, while also providing organizations with visibility and control over their content assets. Egnyte’s cloud-native content services platform leverages the industry’s leading content intelligence engine to deliver a simple, secure, and vendor-neutral foundation for managing enterprise content across business applications and storage repositories. More than 16,000 customers trust Egnyte to enhance employee productivity, automate data management, and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com
Pncpl Software Engineer
Position Responsibilities :
- Lead the architecture and development of AI-powered, distributed systems that meet enterprise-grade performance and security standards.
- Leverage AI tools for code generation, architectural design, and documentation to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Design, build, and maintain services using Java following clean-code and secure design principles.
- Develop agentic AI-based tools, domain-specific copilots, and developer productivity enhancements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define modular, scalable, and compliant architecture patterns.
- Conduct technical design reviews and produce detailed documentation, including system specifications, API docs, and architecture diagrams.
- Integrate AI solutions into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring observability, automated testing, and deployment standards are met.
- Implement robust monitoring and performance engineering practices to maintain high-quality deployments.
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and integrate them into development workflows for maximum impact.
- Champion best practices in security, automation, and performance optimization across the organization.
Qualifications :
- 6+ years in software engineering with backend development in Java.
- 3+ years with AI tools for development, prototyping, or documentation tasks.
- Experience with cloud-native development and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of AI integration patterns, vector stores, prompt engineering, and RAG pipelines.
- Ability to design software architecture using sequence diagrams, ERDs, data models, and threat models.
- Comfortable with Gen AI-first environments and working with remote Agile teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building AI copilots or developer tools using OpenAI/Claude SDKs, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, AIDLC environment, with a strong understanding of CI/CD practices.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Terraform, and monitoring/observability tools.
- Containerization and Orchestration: Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or OCI Cloud.
We’re Hiring | Technology Lead – Java & AWS
Locations: Kochi | Trivandrum | Bangalore
Experience: 15–18 Years
Key Skills: Java, AWS, AI/ML
What We’re Looking For
Strong hands-on expertise in Java and enterprise application development.
Solid experience with AWS and cloud-based architectures.
Practical experience implementing AI/ML solutions.
Expertise in solution architecture, system integration, and scalable application design.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives while remaining actively involved in coding, design, and troubleshooting.
Experience delivering end-to-end enterprise solutions.
Solid product experience and an educational background from Tier‑1 universities are preferred.
As a Senior AI Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering highly scalable, next generation AI products within our AI stack. You will work in a technically rich environment with talented peers, contributing to product planning, design, and execution while influencing the evolution of Teradata’s AI capabilities.
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain high quality systems, services, and applications with an emphasis on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineers and product partners to shape design and consistently deliver end to end features.
- Build and integrate robust RESTful APIs, ensuring security, data consistency, and maintainability.
- Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to implement efficient data models and service access patterns.
- Apply and experiment with AI/ML technologies, including agentic AI and large language models (LLMs).
- Use AI powered engineering tools to improve development quality, speed, and productivity.
- Mentor engineers, supporting them in technical planning, implementation, and best practices.
- Identify and resolve system performance bottlenecks, optimizing code, design, and infrastructure.
- Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews to uphold engineering excellence.
- Investigate production issues, ensuring timely and effective solutions.
- Stay current with emerging trends in engineering, AI/ML, and cloud-native technologies.
Who You’ll Work With
You will be part of a high-performing engineering team building core components of Teradata’s AI platform. You will collaborate closely with other engineers, AI/ML specialists, product managers, cloud architects, and partner teams across the company. The role offers opportunities to contribute directly to Teradata’s AI product roadmap and technological direction.
What Makes You a Qualified Candidate
(Nonnegotiable qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent from a recognized institution.
- 5+ years of experience in backend services, distributed systems, or data platform development.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python for service development.
- Good understanding of design principles, distributed system patterns, and service framework.
- Hands-on experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modelling.
- Strong debugging, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with modern containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of public cloud platforms.
- Experience with AI productivity tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
- Ability to work independently, drive workstreams, and deliver high quality outcomes.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
What You’ll Bring
(Preferred qualifications)
- Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka.
- Experience experimenting with or implementing AI/ML technologies, Agentic AI, or LLMs.
- A track record of influencing design decisions and driving engineering best practices.
- The ability to mentor engineers and guide them through design, planning, and execution.
- A proactive mindset and comfort working in fast paced, dynamic environments.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for building impactful AI-driven products.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Principal Software Engineer – Java will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, mentoring and maintaining high-performance IT system for Hapag-Lloyd. The role requires deep expertise in Java and microservices-based architecture, along with a strong focus on code quality, performance, and scalability. The ideal candidate will be a passionate engineer who thrives in a Java development agile environment and brings a solution-oriented mindset to collaborative product development. As a senior technical expert, you will be responsible for low-level and high-level architectural design, mentoring developers, and working closely with team in Hamburg & Chennai. The ideal candidate is a passionate, solution oriented engineer with a proven track record in leading technical projects within an agile environment.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
9–14 years of hands-on experience in development using Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Kafka, and Microservices. Good Experience in AWS. Strong experience in architectural design – both low-level and high-level. Experience building distributed systems and working in microservices-based architecture. Proficient with Kafka and message-driven architecture. Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL). Sound understanding of modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment. Experience working in Agile/Scrum-based teams with exposure to software lifecycle tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, JIRA).
Technical Skills Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Microservices Kafka (Desired), REST API development SQL, PostgreSQL Git, Maven, Jenkins (Desired), Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (eg. AWS)
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS
Software Development & Design Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications using Java, JPA, Kafka, Microservices, Junit, API and PostgreSQL. Lead low-level and high-level design discussions and decisions for scalable architecture. Build and maintain microservices architecture using industry best practices. Drive technology innovation. Write clean, efficient, well-documented code with high unit test coverage using JUnit.
Mentorship :
Mentor and guide developers and team members in coding standards, best practices, and problem-solving. Conduct regular code reviews, peer programming, and provide technical leadership to ensure code quality and continuous improvement.
Systems Integration & Tools:
Work with messaging systems such as Kafka to build real-time data processing services. Implement and optimize data access using SQL /PostgreSQL databases. Participate in the design and implementation of DevOps pipelines for CI/CD.
Quality, Testing & Documentation:
Conduct regular code reviews and participate in peer programming and Peer coding Review. Perform system testing, validation, and verification across development stages. Contribute to technical documentation throughout the software development lifecycle
Agile Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and developers in agile teams. Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos. Remain current on new technologies and drive adoption of best engineering practices across the team.
BEHAVIOURS & APPROACH
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Team-oriented with excellent communication and collaboration skills Passion for clean code, architecture, and continuous learning Ability to work independently with a proactive approach to problem-solving
Join our product development team at Planview as a Senior Software Engineer I and become a pivotal force on the Viz Core Team. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of data-processing pipelines and APIs that are at the heart of our software solutions. These solutions are designed to streamline and enhance the efficiency of software delivery, resonating deeply with software engineers who strive to build better and faster.
At Planview Viz, which is powered by the innovative “Flow Framework,” you will tackle complex data challenges and develop scalable solutions within an AWS cloud environment. Your efforts will be crucial in revolutionizing how businesses harness and interpret vast amounts of workflow data, transforming it into actionable insights that propel organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Responsibilities (What you'll do)
- Create and refine powerful data-processing architectures that integrate seamlessly with a diverse array of external tools, enhancing the way software is delivered across industries.
- Drive operational excellence by critically analyzing problems, defining requirements, and devising robust solutions that push the boundaries of technology.
- Lead and inspire a team of talented engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, meticulous attention to quality, and proactive problem-solving.
- Stay at the cutting edge of technology by updating and expanding your team’s knowledge of cloud architectures, data processing, and advanced analytics, ensuring that you and your team remain leaders in technological innovation.
- Make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of software delivery worldwide through innovation and leadership.
Qualifications (What you'll bring)
Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
- Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
- Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
- Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
- Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in test-driven development.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.
About the Company
As the world moves toward AI-native applications, one element matters more than anything: data.
We are building a platform that helps organizations unlock the value hidden within customer feedback. By centralizing data from multiple sources—including CRM platforms, support systems, collaboration tools, surveys, community forums, and customer conversations—into a unified intelligence layer, we enable teams to understand customer needs and make better product decisions.
Built on top of this foundation is an AI-powered platform that allows teams to query, monitor, and act on customer intelligence directly within their workflows. Our customers include some of the fastest-growing product-led technology companies as well as large global enterprises.
Backed by leading global venture capital firms, our engineering culture is AI-native from the ground up. Agents, LLMs, and applied machine learning are not side projects—they are central to how we build products. We operate at the cutting edge of agentic systems and continuously push the boundaries of what modern AI applications can achieve.
What You Will Do
- Convert product direction into phased technical plans, including estimates, milestones, dependencies, and risk assessments.
- Make thoughtful trade-offs across correctness, latency, user experience, AI/model behavior, reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
- Define clear ownership boundaries across frontend applications, BFF layers, backend services, agent workflows, ML platforms, and data contracts.
- Review ERDs, PRDs, design documents, and implementation plans to identify gaps before they become execution challenges.
- Drive planning and execution for complex initiatives while empowering area leads and senior engineers to maintain ownership.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM teams to turn ambiguous problem statements into executable solutions.
- Influence technical direction through strong engineering judgment, architectural leadership, and hands-on involvement.
- Mentor senior engineers and contribute to engineering excellence through reviews, incident analysis, and proactive risk management.
What It Takes
- 9+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or equivalent role.
- Demonstrated experience owning architecture and execution for large-scale product or platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Strong foundation in distributed systems and modern software architecture.
- Exposure to agentic AI systems, machine learning engineering, MLOps platforms, and frontend/BFF architectures.
- Ability to own end-to-end product and technical problems rather than specializing exclusively in a single layer of the stack.
- Proven track record of converting ambiguity into actionable engineering plans.
- Excellent written communication skills, including design documentation, architectural reviews, trade-off analyses, and RCA documentation.
- Ability to challenge requirements constructively and collaborate effectively across Product, Design, Engineering, and GTM functions.
- High ownership mindset, attention to detail, and a low-ego, collaborative approach.
We’re on the hunt for a Principal Engineer who loves solving tough problems, mentoring others, and shaping the future of our platform. In this role, you’ll be leading the design and build of scalable systems and integrations across major cybersecurity platforms. Sometimes you’ll be deep in the code, other times you’ll be guiding teams and customers to the right solutions. If you enjoy balancing hands-on work with big-picture thinking, this could be your spot.
About Us
At Metron Security, we help top cybersecurity companies supercharge their tools through automation and integrations. Our engineers connect and extend platforms like Splunk, IBM QRadar, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, and many more. We believe in a developer-first culture where creativity, ownership, and continuous learning drive everything we do.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A true developer-first environment where your ideas and technical chops matter.
- Hands-on exposure to 250+ security platforms (yep, really).
- Direct contact with customers so you can see the impact of your work right away.
- A fast-paced, growth-focused culture—but we also respect work-life balance. No weekends, and only occasional evening calls.
What We’re Looking For
We’re hoping to meet someone who has both deep technical expertise and natural leadership instincts. You think holistically about systems, enjoy digging into tricky problems, and can guide both teammates and customers to success.
Must-Have Skills
- Solid programming experience across multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, Angular, React, C#, C++… we’re language-agnostic and use the best tool for the job).
- Quick at learning new security platforms.
- Proven ability to design and build scalable systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex environments.
- Organized, reliable, and able to set and meet clear timelines.
- Comfortable working directly with customers to understand needs and design solutions.
- Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and security best practices.
Bonus Points If You
- Have experience building or leading integrations with enterprise security tools.
- Like approaching challenges with a “hacker mindset.”
- Know your way around Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud deployments.
- Contribute to open source or share technical insights publicly.
What You’ll Do
- Be the face of Metron Security with our customers—collaborating on solutions and keeping communication clear.
- Bridge the gap between customers and our dev team, ensuring the right info flows both ways.
- Mentor and train junior developers, helping them level up.
- Step in to tackle tough technical problems when the team needs backup.
- Build and document knowledge about security platforms.
- Spot potential roadblocks early and help keep projects on track.
Who You Are
- Strategic thinker who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves.
- Clear communicator who collaborates openly.
- Proud of building strong, maintainable solutions that exceed expectations.
- Curious, quick learner, and always exploring new technologies.
- Positive, “let’s figure it out” teammate who lifts others up.
At Metron Security, we’re all about helping security teams work smarter. If you’re excited to take on big engineering challenges, mentor others, and drive technical vision in a growing company, we’d love to talk.
About the role
You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.
Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office
What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
Director of Engineering (AI Solutions & Delivery)
About the Role
We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead engineering execution and delivery across our enterprise AI solutions. This role combines strong engineering leadership with operational discipline, ensuring AI products move from technical design to production with predictable timelines, high quality, and reliable performance.
You will lead Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, oversee multiple engineering teams, and drive delivery excellence across AI-powered applications and platforms. The focus is on execution, technical quality, and organizational accountability, ensuring teams deliver scalable, production-ready AI systems without compromising reliability or engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities
1. Engineering Delivery & Execution
- Own engineering delivery schedules, translating product roadmaps into achievable sprint plans and release milestones.
- Establish measurable delivery targets, aiming for at least 85% on-time delivery across engineering teams.
- Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, technical bottlenecks, and resource constraints before they affect delivery.
- Drive engineering process improvements across Agile development, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management.
- Monitor delivery metrics, sprint commitments, and release readiness to maintain predictable execution.
2. AI Quality, Evaluation & Governance
- Establish automated AI evaluation pipelines to measure hallucinations, relevance, groundedness, and contextual accuracy before production releases.
- Define quality benchmarks and evaluation criteria for LLM-powered applications and AI-driven workflows.
- Implement safety mechanisms, validation filters, circuit breakers, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks to manage unpredictable AI outputs.
- Oversee RAG pipelines, vector databases, data ingestion, and retrieval mechanisms to maintain accurate, reliable, and compliant context.
- Reduce production AI quality regressions through continuous evaluation, monitoring, and feedback loops.
3. Architecture, Scalability & Reliability
- Oversee the architecture of distributed systems and cloud-native applications to support scalability, availability, and performance.
- Drive reliability targets, including 99.9% uptime and low time-to-first-token (TTFT) latency for applicable AI applications.
- Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers to design resilient systems, including fallback mechanisms for model API failures, timeouts, and rate limits.
- Establish engineering standards for code reviews, observability, automated integration testing, and security compliance.
- Ensure production systems meet defined service-level objectives (SLOs) and performance benchmarks.
4. Engineering Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop Engineering Managers and Tech Leads, establishing clear ownership, accountability, and delivery expectations.
- Build a high-performance engineering culture focused on technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to attract, assess, and hire strong software engineering and AI talent.
- Align engineering resources with business priorities, delivery commitments, and technical requirements.
- Address performance and execution challenges while maintaining team engagement and engineering quality.
Success Metrics: First 90 Days
First 30 Days
- Assess existing engineering workflows, delivery pipelines, and release processes.
- Establish baseline AI evaluation criteria and identify gaps in production quality.
- Take ownership of engineering delivery across teams and align expectations with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads.
First 60 Days
- Implement automated AI evaluation frameworks and establish measurable quality benchmarks.
- Improve cross-team coordination and resolve key delivery dependencies.
- Establish consistent sprint planning, release cadences, and delivery reporting.
First 90 Days
- Achieve at least 85% sprint commitment completion.
- Demonstrate measurable reductions in production AI quality regressions.
- Improve system reliability and stabilize latency against defined performance targets.
- Establish clear accountability and predictable delivery practices across engineering teams.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Experience: 14+ years in software engineering, including at least 5 years managing Engineering Managers or Tech Leads in enterprise or high-growth environments.
- AI/ML Expertise: Hands-on experience delivering AI-powered systems involving LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, prompt engineering, or model fine-tuning workflows.
- Engineering Delivery: Proven ability to lead multiple engineering teams and deliver complex technical initiatives from design through production launch.
- System Architecture: Experience with distributed systems, cloud-native backend infrastructure, and scalable APIs across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- AI Quality & Reliability: Understanding of AI evaluation frameworks, production monitoring, hallucination mitigation, guardrails, and system reliability.
- Delivery Management: Strong experience with Agile methodologies, CI/CD, release planning, and engineering performance metrics.
- Leadership: Ability to establish accountability, manage competing priorities, and deliver against ambitious deadlines without compromising quality or team morale.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will establish predictable engineering delivery, improve the quality and reliability of production AI systems, and build a culture of ownership across engineering teams. They will combine technical judgment with execution-focused leadership to ensure AI solutions are delivered on schedule, operate reliably, and meet enterprise expectations.
If you are passionate about building high-performing engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions at scale, we would like to hear from you.












