Head of Agentic AI for Engineering Tools

Fruition Executive Search; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 160.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Fruition Executive Search in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Technical Leader for Agentic AI (Engineering Tools). You will own core agent intelligence across desktop engineering tools, report to the CTO, and lead a small team of AI engineers, a user researcher, and domain experts.

The role demands 7+ years of software engineering with hands-on agentic AI work, strong Python skills, and experience with cost-aware, enterprise-ready deployments. Relocation not offered.

Formación

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on work in agentic AI.
• Proven ability to build evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for task completion and cost efficiency.
• Technical leadership experience guiding small teams (3–6 engineers) and performing code reviews.
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with LLM tooling including function calling and observability.
• Experience with desktop automation or programmatic control of applications (COM or similar).
• Domain knowledge in mechanical engineering, CAD/CAE, PLM, or related fields.
• Understanding enterprise deployment constraints on secured workstations.
• Track record contributing to public benchmarks, publications, or open-source AI projects.

Responsabilidades

• Lead development of the core agent intelligence layer for multi-step workflows across desktop engineering software.
• Report to the CTO and lead a small team of AI engineers, a user researcher, and domain experts.
• Own the full product loop: define agent capabilities from user stories, implement, and benchmark against real workflows.
• Improve completion metrics by defining evaluation frameworks, baselines, and iterations.
• Set per-task token budgets and track cost per completed workflow for commercial viability.
• Build reproducible evaluation infrastructure grounded in validated user stories.
• Lead user story mapping and validation through interviews with domain experts.
• Translate validated user stories into testable evals, closing the loop between research and benchmarking.
• Own agent architecture decisions including tool-calling, state management, error handling, and routing.
• Act as a player-coach: write production code, review designs, unblock the team, raise standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with integrations, product, and customers during POCs.

Conocimientos

7+ years software engineering

Agentic LLM development

Evaluation frameworks

Technical leadership

Python

LLM tooling

Desktop automation

Mechanical engineering domain

Enterprise deployment

Public benchmarks/open-source

Descripción del empleo

Fruition Executive Search in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Senior Technical Leader for Agentic AI (Engineering Tools). You will own core agent intelligence across desktop engineering tools, report to the CTO, and lead a small team of AI engineers, a user researcher, and domain experts.

The role demands 7+ years of software engineering with hands-on agentic AI work, strong Python skills, and experience with cost-aware, enterprise-ready deployments. Relocation not offered.