Director, AI Platforms

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 319,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

RSUs / equity

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Life360 is seeking a Director of AI Platforms to lead the team building scalable AI foundations that power our products and members. You will shape how AI inference and agent-powered features are delivered at scale, driving adoption and defining measurable outcomes.

You will report to the CIO and collaborate across leadership to align security, privacy, and product goals in a remote-first environment. The role offers a strong equity package and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams that build platforms or infrastructure.
• Experience building and operating production AI systems, including agentic workflows and LLM integrations.
• Working knowledge of MCP and agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with AI inference in production, including serving, latency, reliability, provider management, and cost.
• Experience driving the adoption of new engineering practices across a large engineering organization through influence.
• Hands-on technical judgment and ability to review architecture.
• Clear communication with executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the AI Platforms team with a roadmap balancing internal needs and product direction.
• Lead and scale the team by hiring and developing current members.
• Build and evolve the shared AI platform: model access, routing, agent runtime, MCP integrations, evals, identity, and cost controls.
• Define and own our AI end-user platforms and enable a multiplayer ecosystem with agents.
• Partner with security, privacy and legal to build data safeguards into the platform from day one.
• Define and report outcomes like adoption, quality, cost per outcome, and time to ship.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Production AI systems

Platform engineering

Architectural judgment

Tools

LLM integrations

MCP

Agent orchestration

Job description

# Director, AI PlatformsUnited States6 hours agoID 3082823Price on request## DetailsEmployment type: Full-timeRemote: YesCompany: Life360Level: Director## DescriptionAbout Life360 Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 102.4 million monthly active users (MAU), as of June 30, 2026, across more than 180 countries. Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends who are basically family). Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com . Life360 is a Remote-First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above. We are AI Native We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process. Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy. About The Team The AI Platforms team builds the shared foundation that lets Life360 use AI quickly and safely. Today, that means powering AI adoption and productivity across the company: model access, agent tooling, and the infrastructure our engineers rely on every day. We work side by side with the teams that are reshaping how Life360 builds with agents. We’ll carry these AI foundations as we look forward towards our future AI product strategy. About the Job As the Director of AI Platforms, you will build and lead the team through a defining shift: from supporting how Life360 works with AI to powering how AI shows up for our members. You will be a critical leader in our continued evolution for our agentic product development lifecycle (PDLC), turning early momentum into shared platforms, paved roads, and measurable results. Looking forward, you’ll shape how the platform supports AI inference and AI-powered features within our product. You will report to the Chief Information Security Officer with close partnership across our entire leadership team. The US-based salary range for this position is $216,500 to $318,500 USD. We take into consideration an individual's background, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience in determining final salary. Base pay may also vary based on geographic location, with US work locations falling into one of three geographic tiers. Total compensation is inclusive of equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) , as well as a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits. What You’ll Do • Set the direction for the AI Platforms team, with a clear roadmap that balances today's internal needs with where the product is going • Lead and scale the team to full capacity by strategically hiring and continuing to develop current team members. • Build and evolve the shared AI platform: model access and routing, agent runtime, MCP integrations, evals, agent identity, and cost controls • Define and own our AI end-user platforms, enabling a multiplayer ecosystem working side by side with agents • Partner with core teams to evolve our Agentic PDLC, including the tools, environments, review practices, and workflows through which AI agents help plan, write, test, review, and ship code • Extend the platform from internal productivity to the product, defining how product teams access, run, and monitor AI inference and AI-powered features in production at member scale • Drive adoption by making the right way the easy way: paved paths, reusable skills and components, champions, and enablement that engineers choose to use • Partner with Security, Privacy, and Legal to build data handling, auditability, and safeguards into the platform from day one, with the trust our members expect from a family safety company • Define and report outcomes that matter, such as adoption, quality, cost per outcome, and time to ship, rather than usage counts • Stay close to the work: review designs, unblock teams, and make build-versus-buy calls as the model and tooling landscape change What We’re Looking For • 10+ years of engineering experience • 5+ years experience leading engineering teams that build platforms or infrastructure used by other engineers • Experience building and operating production AI systems, such as agentic workflows, large language model (LLM) integrations, retrieval, and evaluation • Working knowledge of MCP and agent orchestration, including how agents connect to internal systems with appropriate controls • Familiarity with AI inference in production, including serving, latency, reliability, provider management, and cost • Experience driving the adoption of new engineering practices across a large engineering organization through influence, without becoming the bottleneck • Hands-on technical judgment: comfortable reviewing architecture, setting technical direction, and staying close to implementation • Comfort working where the platform, the operating model, and the product use cases are all taking shape at once, and a clear communicator with both executives and engineers...