Remote AI Engineering Director — Production ML & Copilot Systems

nabancard; United States; Remote; USD 207,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible PTO

Employer match 401k

Mental health support

Parental leave

Education assistance

Lifestyle account

Job summary

nabancard is seeking a senior Engineering Leader to guide an AI-enabled team turning prototypes into reliable, production-ready systems embedded in business workflows. You will shape the architecture, drive delivery across projects, and ensure responsible AI operations in a regulated financial services setting.

You will build and lead the team, define standards, collaborate with product partners, and oversee deployment, monitoring, and cost control for large language model-based solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 10+ years in software engineering or ML, with customer-facing experience.
• 2+ years delivering production systems built on LLMs with live agents.
• 4+ years managing and developing engineering teams.
• Experience with AI SDKs, agent frameworks, and production patterns (tool calling, RAG, vector search, state management).
• Strong cloud engineering and production operations skills, plus AI security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Establish operating model, standards, engagement approach, and long-term AI architecture.
• Collaborate with product and business to choose AI or automation approaches.
• Guide discovery, prototyping, production deployment, and support for conversational tools and ML.
• Build secure integrations giving AI access to data and internal tools.
• Define evaluation practices: benchmarks, checks, human review, and production quality.
• Coordinate production ops with cloud/data teams; monitor pipelines and costs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

LLM production experience

Cloud & production ops

AI security

AI integrations

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AI SDKs

Agent frameworks

Vector search

Job description

nabancard is seeking a senior Engineering Leader to guide an AI-enabled team turning prototypes into reliable, production-ready systems embedded in business workflows. You will shape the architecture, drive delivery across projects, and ensure responsible AI operations in a regulated financial services setting.

You will build and lead the team, define standards, collaborate with product partners, and oversee deployment, monitoring, and cost control for large language model-based solutions.