Director of AI Engineering
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Director of AI Engineering at Ottimate leading AI initiatives for finance automation. Overseeing technical teams, product development, and engaging with cross-functional partners.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and ship production AI/ML systems — you write code, not just review it
- Own the AI roadmap end-to-end: prioritization, trade-offs, delivery
- Set technical standards for model quality, evals, observability, and reliability
- Drive adoption of agentic coding tools to multiply team velocity
- Partner with Platform Engineering on infrastructure, data pipelines, and APIs
- Manage a distributed team of 8–10 engineers across Data and ML disciplines
- Hire, develop, and retain engineers at all levels; build a high-trust remote culture
- Partner with Product on roadmap sequencing and scope trade-offs
- Communicate AI capabilities and limitations clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Own model performance metrics and drive continuous improvement pipelines
Requirements:
- Production agentic pipelines using frontier models
- Anthropic SDK · OpenAI SDK · tool use, function calling, multi-agent orchestration
- Reliable agent loop design — planning, memory, tool execution, error recovery
- RAG pipeline design — chunking, embedding models, retrieval tuning, reranking
- Evals frameworks built from scratch — correctness, regression, semantic similarity
- Observability for production AI — tracing, cost tracking, latency, failure analysis
- Fine-tuning frontier or open-source models for domain-specific tasks
- LoRA, QLoRA, instruction tuning — not just off-the-shelf API calls
- Training data collection, curation, cleaning, and labeling at scale
- LLM inference and serving optimization
- Hands-on Python — comfortable writing, reviewing, and shipping production code
- PostgreSQL — schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies
- Distributed systems — async workers, queues, retries, state machines
- Public-facing API design — REST, versioning, developer experience
- AWS or cloud infrastructure — enough to own AI workload deployments
Benefits:
- Compensation: 200,000-225,000 + 15% Annual Bonus
- Competitive salary based on skills & experience.
- Medical, Dental, Vision and other Company-Subsidized Benefits for you and your family.
- Employer sponsored 401(k) with company match.
- Paid Time Off (and the encouragement to use it).
- Annual company retreats.
- Promote from within philosophy.
- Easier to solve difficult problems creatively and with agency.
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