Executive Leader, Enterprise AI Engineering

The Hired Guns; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 247,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Globally Renowned Nonprofit is seeking a Senior Director of AI Engineering to architect enterprise AI strategy and lead hands-on development. You will drive infrastructure, governance, and engineering practices to move AI from experiments to an enterprise-grade ecosystem.

You will partner with executives and cross-functional teams across product, security, DevOps, UX and data to deploy AI responsibly at scale, balancing pragmatic decisions with ambitious outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading software engineering organizations
• Experience modernizing enterprise cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
• Deep understanding of AI ecosystem: LLMs, RAG, vector stores, governance, security

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering orgs and still guide technical decisions
• Drive enterprise cloud platform strategy and large-scale transformations
• Collaborate with executives across security, product, and data teams to deploy AI responsibly

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architectures

AI governance

Stakeholder management

Agile culture

Tools

AWS

Job description

Globally Renowned Nonprofit is seeking a Senior Director of AI Engineering to architect enterprise AI strategy and lead hands-on development. You will drive infrastructure, governance, and engineering practices to move AI from experiments to an enterprise-grade ecosystem.

You will partner with executives and cross-functional teams across product, security, DevOps, UX and data to deploy AI responsibly at scale, balancing pragmatic decisions with ambitious outcomes.