AI/ML R&D Director — Technical Leadership & Innovation

Camgian Corporation; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Camgian Corporation’s Camgian Labs seeks a Technical Director to lead cutting-edge AI/ML R&D initiatives and customer-funded programs. You will empower engineers and researchers to pursue bold ideas, mentor staff, and drive technical excellence across architectures, models, and deployments.

You will report to the CIO, shape staffing and execution, and travel up to 15% for engagements, proposals, and reviews, while maintaining security-clearance readiness where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, applied math, statistics, or related technical field.
• 10+ years in AI/ML and advanced R&D including algorithm development, autonomy, or complex software systems.
• 3+ years of formal people management experience with hiring, performance management, coaching, and staff development.
• Strong technical expertise in AI/ML architecture, model development, evaluation, integration, and deployment.
• Experience coordinating staffing, schedules, budgets, dependencies, and risks across concurrent efforts.
• Ability to contribute to architecture, design, model, code reviews.
• Experience engaging government customers, research sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Experience supporting technical proposals, research planning, or customer-funded R&D.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 15% in the U.S. for engagements and management.

Responsibilities

• Provide people leadership for engineers, researchers, and Labs personnel through recruiting, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Coordinate staffing and resource assignments across programs to balance priorities and business needs.
• Lead internal and customer-funded R&D efforts through staffing, coordination, and resolution of technical and organizational challenges.
• Participate in architecture, design, model, code, and technical readiness reviews and contribute to selected technical efforts.
• Work with principal investigators to address risks, resolve conflicts, and improve execution across programs.
• Strengthen engineering and research practices through planning, evaluation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Support customer engagements, proposals, technical planning, and transition activities.
• Serve on Labs leadership to shape growth, capabilities, staffing strategies, and priorities.

Skills

AI/ML architecture

People leadership

Cross-project coordination

Strong communication

Proposal support

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Camgian Corporation’s Camgian Labs seeks a Technical Director to lead cutting-edge AI/ML R&D initiatives and customer-funded programs. You will empower engineers and researchers to pursue bold ideas, mentor staff, and drive technical excellence across architectures, models, and deployments.

You will report to the CIO, shape staffing and execution, and travel up to 15% for engagements, proposals, and reviews, while maintaining security-clearance readiness where applicable.