Director of AI Engineering & Platform Delivery

Egen; United States; Remote; USD 218,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Leave

Paid Holidays

Sick Leave

Parental Leave

Bereavement Leave

401(k) Employer Match

Employee Referral Bonuses

Job summary

Egen is seeking a high-impact Director of Engineering to lead a strategic AI Practice. This role combines player-coach leadership with direct client delivery, managing a ~20-engineer span across North America, Europe, and India.

You will shape hiring, onboarding, and practice-wide enablement while driving billable AI engagements. Reporting to the AI Practice Lead, you will partner on architecture, governance, and platform deployments, with ~50% time in client-facing work and a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience.
• Proven ability to scale teams and create effective organizational structures.
• Deep technical strength in platform, pipeline, and infrastructure architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a roughly twenty-engineer span and drive performance, growth, and career paths.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and enablement across the practice; collaborate with Talent Acquisition.
• Provide hands-on delivery and high-value client engagement as a platform leader across AI/ML initiatives.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Talent management

Platform architecture

GCP expertise

Executive consulting

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Tools

GCP

Job description

Egen is seeking a high-impact Director of Engineering to lead a strategic AI Practice. This role combines player-coach leadership with direct client delivery, managing a ~20-engineer span across North America, Europe, and India.

You will shape hiring, onboarding, and practice-wide enablement while driving billable AI engagements. Reporting to the AI Practice Lead, you will partner on architecture, governance, and platform deployments, with ~50% time in client-facing work and a strong emphasis on