Director of AI Harness Engineering

FICO; England; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

FICO in the United Kingdom seeks a Director, AI Harness Engineering to lead a new regional team and shape the environment that steers AI agents toward correct, maintainable outputs. This hands-on leadership role requires building harness components, guards, and feedback systems that scale across the organization.

You will partner with engineering and product leaders to embed governance, testing, and observability, balancing speed and quality while building a high-performing, distributed team

Qualifications

• Experience with AI governance and quality gating.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• Hands-on with AI coding agents and tooling.
• Strong communication across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and own AI governance for the region.
• Lead a regional harness engineering team.
• Develop harness components and verification systems.
• Set quality standards across teams.
• Collaborate with product management and security teams.

Skills

AI governance

Leadership

Architectural design

Agent orchestration

Education

CS degree

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Linters

Containerization

Job description

FICO in the United Kingdom seeks a Director, AI Harness Engineering to lead a new regional team and shape the environment that steers AI agents toward correct, maintainable outputs. This hands-on leadership role requires building harness components, guards, and feedback systems that scale across the organization.

You will partner with engineering and product leaders to embed governance, testing, and observability, balancing speed and quality while building a high-performing, distributed team