Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering - AI Agents

Onsite - San Francisco, NYC, or LA

Base $300k - $450k Equity

FutureTech Recruitment is partnered with a $30M funded, a16z-backed Series A AI startup building domain-specific agents that automate complex, document-heavy workflows inside large regulated enterprises. Their platform is live with leading enterprise clients at scale and is growing rapidly. Engineering-led founding team, strong investor backing, and a clear wedge in a market that has seen almost no meaningful AI adoption yet.

They’re now hiring a Director of Engineering - AI Agents to own and scale the entire AI org. You’ll set the technical direction for production LLM-powered agents that handle real enterprise workflows - model routing, multi-agent orchestration, reliability, and evals. Both founders are engineers and you’ll have an outsized say on product direction while building the team from the ground up. Clear path to VP-level leadership as the org scales.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the AI org across three teams: AI infrastructure (routing & reliability), agent intelligence (evals, shared tools, multimodal pipelines), and agentic products (customer-facing AI assistant, long-running workflows)
• Set technical direction for production agent systems - model routing, multi-agent orchestration, and reliability at enterprise scale
• Recruit, mentor, and retain world-class AI engineers - hiring the leaders beneath you as the org scales post-Series A
• Stay deeply technical - in the code and architecture, setting the bar by example
• Push the frontier of what AI agents can do in a highly regulated, high-stakes production environment

Requirements

• 7 years in AI/ML engineering with experience managing teams at a top tech firm
• Led an AI/ML team that shipped production LLM or agent systems
• Built and scaled an engineering team of 10
• Hands-on coder - agentic architectures, tool use, planning, multi-agent orchestration, evals
• Still writes and reviews code - can evaluate experiment design
• Experience with model routing, reliability, and multimodal pipelines
• Background at an early-stage or high-growth B2B SaaS startup
• Based in or willing to relocate to SF, NYC, or LA

Tech Stack

Python, LLMs, Agentic AI, Multi-agent orchestration, Model routing, Evaluation frameworks, Multimodal pipelines

$30M raised, a16z-backed, live with enterprise clients at scale, and an engineering-led founding team. A rare opportunity to own the entire AI org at a company bringing production-grade AI to a massive, underserved regulated market. If you’re a deeply technical AI leader with a founder’s mindset, click Apply Now!