Director, Generative AI Platforms & Engineering

ICW GROUP HOLDINGS; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ICW Group in San Diego is seeking a Director of Applied AI Engineering to lead enterprise generative and agentic AI initiatives. You will own AI Platforms, guide a team of engineers, and partner with product, data, security, and risk teams to ensure scalable, responsible deployments.

This senior role focuses on platform governance, standards, and cost management while delivering high-impact AI capabilities across underwriting, claims, distribution, and finance.

Responsibilities

• Leads design, development, and production delivery of generative and agentic AI solutions across the enterprise.
• Owns AI Platforms, including Bedrock services, agent runtime, and MLOps pipelines.
• Operates AI Platforms as a shared enterprise capability for multiple teams.
• Establishes engineering standards for generative and agentic AI development and release management.
• Directs delivery model, capacity planning, and commitments to business stakeholders.
• Collaborates with data services, product management, and governance to ensure responsible deployment.
• Oversees production support, reliability, performance, and SLA adherence.
• Maintains capacity for research and evaluation of emergent AI capabilities.
• Evaluates new AI technologies and vendors; makes build-versus-buy recommendations.

Skills

AI leadership

Platform ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud & on‑prem infra

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

ML operations (MLOps)

Model registry

Job description

ICW Group in San Diego is seeking a Director of Applied AI Engineering to lead enterprise generative and agentic AI initiatives. You will own AI Platforms, guide a team of engineers, and partner with product, data, security, and risk teams to ensure scalable, responsible deployments.

This senior role focuses on platform governance, standards, and cost management while delivering high-impact AI capabilities across underwriting, claims, distribution, and finance.