Director of AI Engineering — Enterprise GenAI & Agentic AI

Burtch Works; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Burtch Works seeks a Director of AI Engineering in New York, NY. This hybrid role combines senior technical leadership with hands-on AI development, spanning traditional ML, Generative AI, and agentic architectures.

You will mentor teams, shape enterprise AI strategy, and partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable AI value. You will own solution delivery atop the enterprise AI platform, guiding design, testing, and production readiness, while collaborating across business, data science, and

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, AI, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 8+ years applying data science, ML, and AI to real-world business problems.
• Fluency with AI-assisted engineering tools used daily; experience building engineering agents.
• Full-stack AI fluency across modeling to production and agentic design.
• Strong Python, plus SQL/JavaScript, React; comfortable with CI/CD; Docker & Kubernetes.
• Hands-on with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, graph-based retrieval, and multi-agent systems.
• Cloud platforms: GCP Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker/Bedrock and Databricks.
• Stakeholder engagement and senior-leader communication; drive alignment.
• Mentoring and elevating technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI/ML and GenAI initiatives end-to-end with cross-functional teams.
• Own end-to-end delivery for AI solutions on the enterprise AI platform.
• Design and implement agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration.
• Design and deploy production-grade RAG and retrieval systems.
• Lead technical decisions across the AI stack, cloud platforms, and tooling.
• Prototype AI-powered applications with Streamlit or React.
• Develop engineering agents to accelerate delivery and quality.
• Define and evolve technical standards for AI development and evaluation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data scientists and AI engineers.

Skills

Python

SQL

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

LLMs

RAG architectures

Multi-agent systems

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Engineering

Tools

LangGraph

MCP

Google ADK

Databricks

GCP Vertex AI

SageMaker

Bedrock

Job description

Burtch Works seeks a Director of AI Engineering in New York, NY. This hybrid role combines senior technical leadership with hands-on AI development, spanning traditional ML, Generative AI, and agentic architectures.

You will mentor teams, shape enterprise AI strategy, and partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable AI value. You will own solution delivery atop the enterprise AI platform, guiding design, testing, and production readiness, while collaborating across business, data science, and