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Dice
- Location
- Arlington, VA · On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time · Executive
- Salary
- $3 – $10/hr
- Posted
- Posted 7 days ago
Freshness: Present in the latest sync from firecrawl 6 days ago. (last checked 6 days ago) · Source: firecrawl
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About this role
Job Title: Director of AI Engineering Work Location: Arlington, VA Long Term Contract Job Summary:: Build and lead AI Engineering function from the ground up. Set strategy, stand up infrastructure, hire the team, and deliver AI agents that analyze operational and commercial data to drive efficiency, revenue, and insight. This is a hands-on leader, not a pure people manager; in that you ll personally drive architecture and early builds until the team is staffed. Ideally candidate has worked at AI Labs (i.e. Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, etc). Required: 10+ years in software/data/ML engineering, including 3+ years leading technical teams. Hands-on, current experience deploying production AI/ML systems at enterprise scale. Direct experience with large language models. Specifically self-hosting open-weight models (not just calling commercial APIs) and serving optimization (quantization, inference optimization, GPU utilization). Experience designing and deploying agentic AI systems. Experience with both cloud and on-premises GPU infrastructure. Proven ability to hire and lead high-performing engineering teams. Experience with infrastructure procurement / capacity planning / vendor management. Desired: Databricks experience. Experience deploying AI/ML in or near operational technology (OT), industrial, or safety-critical environments. Ontology / semantic modeling familiarity.
Skills
- Databricks