Remote Director, Applied AI Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage

Flexible Paid Time Off

401(k) + Match

Mental Health Support & Well-Being

Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave

Education Assistance

Company-funded Lifestyle Spending

Job summary

North is seeking a Director of Applied AI Engineering in a remote US setting. Lead a hands-on team moving AI capabilities from prototype to production within regulated financial contexts, partnering with stakeholders across Product, Sales, Operations, and Risk.

The role demands deep software and ML fundamentals, experience with LLMs and agent systems, and a track record of shipping enterprise AI with governance and cost discipline. This is a strategic, leadership-heavy delivery role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering or ML experience.
• 2+ years building production LLM/agent systems.
• 4+ years of hands-on management experience with hiring and mentoring.
• Exceptional leadership in fast-moving environments.
• Hands-on debugging of production agents.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing Applied AI engineering team, defining the practice’s operating model and standards.
• Partner with Product, customers, and stakeholders to observe workflows and design AI solutions.
• Drive rapid discovery, prototyping, and production transition of AI capabilities.
• Architect, deploy, and maintain production AI solutions (agents, chatbots, copilots).
• Establish modular integrations for AI agents with least-privilege access.
• Own AI evaluation lifecycle with offline/online tests and production readiness criteria.
• Manage production ops with CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Skills

Leadership

Production debugging

AI/ML fundamentals

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AWS Strands Agents

Bedrock AgentCore

CI/CD tooling

Job description

North is seeking a Director of Applied AI Engineering in a remote US setting. Lead a hands-on team moving AI capabilities from prototype to production within regulated financial contexts, partnering with stakeholders across Product, Sales, Operations, and Risk.

The role demands deep software and ML fundamentals, experience with LLMs and agent systems, and a track record of shipping enterprise AI with governance and cost discipline. This is a strategic, leadership-heavy delivery role.