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Director – AI Engineering
American Express. Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns, autonomy boundaries, and system design .
Posted 9/22/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesLead💰 $144,250 - $256,250 per yearWebsite
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and leading large-scale distributed systems, particularly in agentic AI and LLM infrastructure. Proven ability to mentor teams, influence technical direction, and deliver complex projects from inception to production.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Agentic AI DevelopmentLarge-Scale Distributed SystemsTechnical LeadershipLLM SystemsCloud Infrastructure
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Hard Skills
PythonGoTypeScriptRESTGRPCKubernetesKafkaAirFlowData PipelinesAPIs
Soft Skills
MentoringInfluencingNegotiationTeam LeadershipPerformance Reviews
Tools & Technologies
AWSGCPLangGraphLangChainPyTorchHugging FacePydanticZod
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree
Industry Keywords
Agentic WorkflowsAutonomous SystemsEvaluationSafety ToolingScalability
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCKafkaKubernetesPythonPyTorchTypeScriptGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Drive technical direction for agentic AI initiatives, influencing architecture patterns, autonomy boundaries, and system design
- Design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems used across multiple products
- Own and evolve agent frameworks, orchestration layers, planning, tool use, memory strategies, retrieval and grounding pipelines, LLM infrastructure, inference and model gateways, evaluation, observability, and safety tooling
- Lead technical design reviews and guide tradeoffs involving autonomy, safety, reliability, scalability, and cost
- Partner across teams to deliver complex, cross-cutting agentic AI initiatives from concept to production
- Evaluate emerging models, techniques, and agentic patterns and translate them into enterprise-ready improvements
- Lead people and own HR processes including performance reviews and talent development
- Recruit top technical talent
- Lead teams in iterative product development using lean principles
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar for agentic AI development
- Shape the vision and roadmap for agentic AI experiences with Product, UX, and enterprise stakeholders
- Establish architectural standards and ensure reliable, scalable agentic AI platforms across the enterprise
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, with strong experience in LLM systems, agentic workflows, or advanced ML infrastructure
- Strong experience leading and growing engineering teams through complex deliveries
- Experience taking projects through the entire software development lifecycle from inception to delivery as a technical leader
- Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals
- Ability to lead engineering teams and negotiate or influence across organizational boundaries
- Proven ownership of complex, cross-cutting agentic systems spanning multiple teams or products
- Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
- Deep experience across the agentic AI stack, including planning, tool use, memory, and evaluation
- Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows
- Ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and translate them into shipped, reliable autonomous systems
- Ability to influence technical direction and align teams without formal authority
- Experience in workflow engines, async processing, queues, and streaming systems
- Comfortable with Python, Go, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, AWS and/or GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, LangGraph, LangChain, AirFlow, LLM integration, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Pydantic, and Zod
- Bachelor's Degree
Benefits
Comp & perks- Bonus
- Equity (if applicable)
- Benefits
- Potential visa sponsorship depending on business unit requirements, position, cost, and applicable laws
- Hybrid work arrangement