Director of AI-Driven Title Automation

firstam; Santa Ana (CA); Remote; USD 197,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

First American is seeking a Director of Engineering to own parts of our AI-driven title automation platform. You will lead a distributed team of engineering managers and senior ICs, define the technical strategy with Product, Data Science, and Title Operations, and be accountable for delivery, platform health, and measurable business outcomes.

You bring a track record of building large-scale data and AI platforms, exceptional executive communication, and a passion for developing leaders who

Qualifications

• Experience owning strategy, architecture, and operations of large-scale data/AI platforms.
• Strong fluency in distributed data processing and cloud data warehousing.
• Experience with document intelligence, OCR, or ML data processing at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture for production-grade document intelligence systems.
• Lead Sequoia expansion across order types and geographies.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and operations to deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Data platform leadership

Distributed engineering

AI/ML lifecycle

Executive communication

Cloud architecture

Team building

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

MLflow

Job description

First American is seeking a Director of Engineering to own parts of our AI-driven title automation platform. You will lead a distributed team of engineering managers and senior ICs, define the technical strategy with Product, Data Science, and Title Operations, and be accountable for delivery, platform health, and measurable business outcomes.

You bring a track record of building large-scale data and AI platforms, exceptional executive communication, and a passion for developing leaders who