Associate Director, AI Engineer

Bot Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 94,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

At least 15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick leave

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Dentsu seeks an Associate Director, AI Engineer to lead the design and delivery of multi-agent systems transforming data into automated client workflows. You will write production Python, set engineering patterns, and coordinate with an offshore team to ensure scalable, reliable AI products.

Key responsibilities include architecting AI orchestration solutions, building reusable agent components, and collaborating with data scientists to deploy robust interfaces for client-facing use cases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with strong Python skills.
• 2+ years hands-on with LLMs (prompting, RAG, function calling).
• Experience with at least one agent orchestration framework (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Strong system design, API architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containers, preferably Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build multi-agent systems using LLM orchestration frameworks for client-facing AI products.
• Implement end-to-end AI orchestration use cases for clients with reliable delivery.
• Create reusable agent components, prompts, and tool libraries for future deployments.
• Collaborate with offshore teams on architecture, patterns, and coding standards.
• Write production-grade Python with observability, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Partner with data scientists to integrate models into resilient agent interfaces.
• Contribute to architecture docs and runbooks.

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

API design

Distributed systems

Python

LLMs

Cloud platforms

Vector databases

Job description

Role overview

Job Description: Reports To: VP, AI Agents & Automation Team: AI Agents & Automation Role Summary We are seeking an Associate Director, AI Engineer to help build the next generation of AI agents at dentsu. This role is a senior technical individual contributor position focused on designing and delivering multi-agent systems that transform data intelligence into automated, client-facing workflows. You will partner closely with the VP of AI Agents & Automation, write production code, set engineering patterns, and collaborate with an offshore engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable AI products. This role blends architectural decision-making with hands-on development.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build multi-agent systems using LLM orchestration frameworks for client-facing AI products.
• Implement end-to-end AI orchestration use cases for clients, ensuring reliability, maintainability, and high-quality delivery.
• Build agentic wrappers and interfaces around data science models (e.g., MMM, forecasting, incrementality) to support conversational access.
• Configure Genie spaces to enable client data exploration and self-service analytics.
• Develop reusable agent components, prompt templates, and tool-use libraries to accelerate future deployments.
• Evaluate LLM providers based on capability, cost, and latency, and recommend optimal options for each use case.
• Collaborate with the Offshore Director Staff AI Engineer on architecture direction, design patterns, and coding standards.
• Write production-grade Python with appropriate error handling, observability, CI/CD integration, and deployment automation.
• Partner closely with Data Scientists to understand models and create resilient, accurate agent interfaces.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture decision records, and operational runbooks.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Python skills.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience working with LLMs (e.g., prompt engineering, RAG, function calling, agent frameworks).
• Experience with at least one agent orchestration framework (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar).
• Strong system design skills, including API architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and large-scale RAG systems.
• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective collaboration skills for partnering with distributed teams across regions and time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks and/or Genie.
• Background in media, advertising, or marketing technology.
• Experience with MLOps, model-serving infrastructure, and production model lifecycle.
• Experience building conversational AI or copilot-style products.
• Open-source contributions related to agentic AI.

Salary

The annual salary range for this position is $94,000 - $152,662. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave

Location and contract details

Location: USA - Remote - Maryland

Brand: Dentsu Media

Time Type: Temps plein

Contract Type: Contrat à durée indéterminée (CDI)

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