Director, Core AI Engineering: Architecture & Validation

Beam Suntory, Inc; Madrid; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Beam Suntory, Inc. seeks a hands-on Director of Core AI Engineering to set the technical direction for enterprise AI capabilities and collaborate across AI Product Delivery, data, security, and infrastructure.

You will lead a small, capable team and guide architecture choices, prototypes, and validations to create a blueprint for industrialization by delivery teams. The role requires deep experience in enterprise architecture, AI orchestration, retrieval, and secure engineering practices, with

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering or technology-delivery leadership in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and validating enterprise AI and generative AI capabilities.
• Strong enterprise architecture, systems integration, and secure engineering practices.
• Experience leading distributed technical teams and scalable DevOps practices.
• Excellent technical communication and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Set the Core AI engineering direction and reference architectures for enterprise AI capabilities.
• Own the advanced AI systems stack, including agent runtimes, retrieval, and orchestration.
• Lead technical incubation, prototypes, security reviews, and handoffs to delivery teams.
• Validate quality, safety, and technical readiness with measurable evaluation approaches.
• Build and mentor a high-caliber AI/platform team and drive scalable engineering standards.

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise AI

Systems architecture

Cloud platforms

Security practices

DevOps / SRE

Technical communication

Team mentorship

Distributed teams

Tools

Vector databases

LLMOps tooling

RAG retrieval

Knowledge graphs

Embeddings

Job description

Beam Suntory, Inc. seeks a hands-on Director of Core AI Engineering to set the technical direction for enterprise AI capabilities and collaborate across AI Product Delivery, data, security, and infrastructure.

You will lead a small, capable team and guide architecture choices, prototypes, and validations to create a blueprint for industrialization by delivery teams. The role requires deep experience in enterprise architecture, AI orchestration, retrieval, and secure engineering practices, with