AI Engineering Director

⚡ Lead engineering through an agentic AI transformation at a company protecting the world's most valuable AI systems — from Fortune 500s to federal agencies. This Jobot Job is hosted by: Rob Prychodnik Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button and sending us your resume. Salary: $250,000 - $350,000 per year A bit about us: We're a Gartner-recognized leader in Security for AI, offering a unified platform for supply chain security, runtime defense, posture management, and automated red teaming across agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications. Built by cybersecurity and machine learning veterans, our patented technology helps organizations across the public and private sectors adopt AI with confidence — defending against prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, model theft, and supply chain compromise. Why join us? We're a fast-growing, award-winning leader in AI security, protecting the world's most valuable technologies from AI attacks. Founded by cybersecurity and machine learning veterans, we've built a patented, unified platform that secures agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications — covering supply chain security, runtime defense, posture management, and automated red teaming. Our customers span Fortune 500 enterprises, financial institutions, healthcare systems, and federal agencies, all relying on us to adopt AI securely and with confidence. Job Details WHAT YOU'LL DO: Oversee multiple AI engineering teams, ensuring effective execution and alignment with company goals; mentor engineering managers and senior technical staff Partner with senior leadership to shape engineering strategy and roadmap, including an ongoing agentic transformation Manage large-scale, complex projects — prioritization, resourcing, risk management, on-time delivery Drive technical innovation, especially in agentic loop engineering, and foster continuous improvement Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and operations as the engineering liaison Build, scale, and mentor AI engineering talent and leadership pipelines Establish and report on KPIs for engineering teams Optimize workflows, tooling, and development processes using agile and DevOps best practices WHO YOU ARE: Bachelor's in Computer Science/Engineering (Master's preferred) 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ in leadership (director/senior manager level) Track record leading multiple teams on complex, high-impact projects Strong background in systems architecture and cloud technologies Experience with agile, CI/CD, and DevOps practices Excellent communication and strategic thinking; comfortable with executive stakeholders Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button. Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Jobot, and/or its agents and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here: jobot.com/privacy-policy