Associate Director AI Engineering

Serve as the senior hands-on full-stack engineer and architect, turning scientist-built prototypes into reliable, secure, production-ready systems for R&D. Set engineering standards and deployment patterns, build cloud-native applications, and partner with scientists, platform teams, Cyber and Quality on integration and validation.

Responsibilities

• Set engineering standards, architecture, release, incident-response and production-readiness practices for team applications.
• Refactor and productize prototypes with sound architecture, testing, observability, security, documentation and operability.
• Build reusable application-to-platform patterns for authentication, secrets, networking, deployment and monitoring.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environments, starter templates, monitoring and operational runbooks.
• Review and approve code, maintain repository merge gates, and conduct design and architecture reviews.
• Design and build full-stack cloud-native systems, including APIs, workflow services, data and vector stores, identity services and user interfaces.

Required Skills

• Full-stack software development
• Cloud-native architecture
• API development
• CI/CD pipeline engineering
• Infrastructure as code
• Application security
• Authentication and single sign-on
• Automated testing and regression evaluation
• Observability and monitoring
• Vector and data store integration