Director of AI-Driven Title Automation (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work welcome

Job summary

First American is seeking a Director of Engineering to own parts of the AI-driven title automation strategy. You will lead a distributed engineering organization, set technical direction with Product, Data Science, and Title Operations, and drive delivery, platform health, and talent outcomes across your domain.

The role emphasizes building an AI-ready data foundation, governance, and scalable document intelligence capabilities, with a focus on operational excellence and cost discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience owning strategy, architecture, and operational outcomes of a large-scale data/AI platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data and Document Intelligence Platform and its canonical data model.
• Scale AI-driven title automation across new orders and geographies.
• Set architecture standards for document processing, data pipelines, and ML lifecycle.
• Lead distributed engineering teams through managers and senior ICs.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and Title Operations to deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Distributed leadership

AI/ML governance

Data platform architecture

Cloud data engineering

Product collaboration

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

MLflow

Snowflake

CI/CD

Job description

First American is seeking a Director of Engineering to own parts of the AI-driven title automation strategy. You will lead a distributed engineering organization, set technical direction with Product, Data Science, and Title Operations, and drive delivery, platform health, and talent outcomes across your domain.

The role emphasizes building an AI-ready data foundation, governance, and scalable document intelligence capabilities, with a focus on operational excellence and cost discipline.