Director of AI-Powered Automation & Platform Engineering

SportsTechJobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 245,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Director, Automation Engineering in New York to lead AI-enabled automation and scalable software for the Data Collaboration Group. You will guide design, tooling, and workflows that empower audience activation, measurement, and reporting at scale.

You will build reusable components, establish reliability metrics, and mentor a team of software and AI engineers to deliver production-grade solutions across data platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI automation projects.
• Strong Python development for production systems.
• Experience with AI agents and RAG patterns.
• Familiarity with data platform collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of internal AI agents and automation workflows.
• Oversee production-grade Python applications and services.
• Define metrics, guardrails, and testing patterns for reliability and cost.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices across teams.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

Snowflake Cortex

LangChain

LangGraph

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

CI/CD

Automated Testing

OOP Design

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions)

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Director, Automation Engineering in New York to lead AI-enabled automation and scalable software for the Data Collaboration Group. You will guide design, tooling, and workflows that empower audience activation, measurement, and reporting at scale.

You will build reusable components, establish reliability metrics, and mentor a team of software and AI engineers to deliver production-grade solutions across data platforms.