Director of Engineering, AI Frontiers

• Manage and mentor a team of AI engineers across evaluation, prototyping, and tooling work
• Lead hands-on technical evaluations of frontier AI capabilities, including agentic systems, multimodal models, reasoning systems, and AI development tooling
• Build working prototypes that test capabilities against real business scenarios and enterprise constraints, including security, data governance, and integration requirements
• Establish and maintain sandbox environments for rapid evaluation, validated with risk and security, activated on demand
• Build and operate the tooling that supports the evaluation pipeline: intake, triage, design, execution, and results review
• Partner with liaisons in security, architecture, and risk to embed enterprise constraints into evaluation design from the start, not as an afterthought
• Translate technical findings into clear, evidence-backed recommendations that business-line leaders can act on
• Represent the engineering perspective in Radar publications, field work sessions, and executive briefings
• Ensure evaluations are reproducible: methodology, test scenarios, data, and results documented to a standard that a peer could independently assess

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a technical lead or engineering management role
• Practical experience building and evaluating AI systems, including LLM-based applications, agentic pipelines, and RAG architectures
• Comfort working at the frontier: you follow model releases, track agentic frameworks, and have opinions about what matters and what is hype
• Strong engineering judgment: you know when to build a prototype in a day and when depth is warranted
• Ability to communicate technical findings in plain language to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working in or alongside highly regulated environments, with direct exposure to security, compliance, or governance constraints

• Experience evaluating or benchmarking AI models and systems against defined success criteria
• Background in financial services
• Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, data platforms, or platform engineering
• Public writing, presentations, or open-source contributions in the AI space

​What's in it for you?

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Opportunities to do challenging work.

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