Director, Automation Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design and implementation of internal AI agents and automation workflows utilizing frameworks like Snowflake Cortex, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar technologies.

• Lead the development of reusable tools, APIs, and components tailored for agentic workflows.

• Manage retrieval-augmented generation workflows, context management strategies, and prompt patterns.

• Create evaluation harnesses, regression tests, monitoring patterns, metrics, guardrails, and validation methods for AI-agent behavior.

• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to transition AI workflows from prototype to production.

• Supervise production-quality Python applications, libraries, and services.

• Advocate for object-oriented design and best practices in software engineering, including testing, CI/CD, code reviews, observability, and documentation.

• Propel reusable engineering patterns and scalable technical solutions across collaborative engagements.

• Direct the development of reusable Python libraries that support clean room audience workflows and measurement applications.

• Transform analytical and data collaboration workflows into repeatable, self-service components.

• Facilitate configurable feature deployment across partner organizations.

• Recruit, nurture, and retain a high-performing team of software and AI engineers.

• Provide mentorship to engineers and establish standards for AI-assisted workflows, agentic systems, reusable libraries, and production automation.

• Foster reliability, maintainability, and ongoing improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering, including leadership and mentorship of engineering teams.

• Extensive hands-on experience in developing production-grade Python software, libraries, services, testing, CI/CD, and conducting code reviews.

• Practical experience in building applications with LLMs, RAG, vector databases, prompt engineering, and tools like Snowflake Cortex, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar platforms.

• Background in designing AI-enabled workflows, reasoning agents, tool-using agents, or complex automation systems.

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies.

• Strong comprehension of production system design, observability, reliability, scalability, performance tuning, and operational support.

• Familiarity with data clean room concepts or platforms like Snowflake Clean Rooms, Databricks Clean Rooms, and LiveRamp/Habu.

• Experience with advertising technology, audience activation, campaign delivery, reach and frequency, attribution, incrementality, or reporting workflows.

• Preferred: Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification, Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate, or similar cloud/data platform certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Paid leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• A variety of discounts and perks.

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Eligibility for long-term incentives.