Director, Harness Engineering — AI Governance & Scale

FICO

England

On-site

GBP 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+
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Hybrid work/work‑life balance

Job summary

FICO is building a dedicated Harness Engineering team to own the environment that steers AI agents toward reliable, production‑grade results. You will design and implement harness components, lead a regional team of harness engineers, and set quality standards across the organization.

The role combines hands‑on coding with leadership, focusing on verification, guardrails, and scalable QA to ensure that agents deliver trusted outputs at scale. Join us in shaping AI‑driven engineering.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent industry experience.
  • Hands-on leadership with large, complex codebases; maintainable architecture and quality controls.
  • Experience with AI coding agents and governance, including testing infrastructure.
  • Experience building engineering tooling across a modern stack and instrumentation.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build harness components; contribute code, not just direction.
  • Develop guides, rules, and docs to guide agent behavior and adoption.
  • Create feedback sensors and tests to catch issues before human review.
  • Own AI governance for the region; define approval boundaries for automation.

Skills

Leadership
AI governance
Observability
System design
Communication
Distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related

Tools

CI/CD pipelines
Linters / Static analysis
LLM-testing tooling

Job description

FICO is building a dedicated Harness Engineering team to own the environment that steers AI agents toward reliable, production‑grade results. You will design and implement harness components, lead a regional team of harness engineers, and set quality standards across the organization.

The role combines hands‑on coding with leadership, focusing on verification, guardrails, and scalable QA to ensure that agents deliver trusted outputs at scale. Join us in shaping AI‑driven engineering.

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