Senior Director – AI Engineering, Applied AI

🕒 September 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $330k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 AI Engineer

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FICO

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1956

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Insurance • Healthcare

FICO is a leading analytics and software company renowned for its FICO® Score, a tool widely used by lenders to assess credit risk. The company offers a comprehensive platform that leverages data, AI, and machine learning to power intelligent decision-making and customer engagement across various industries. FICO's solutions span fraud detection, credit scoring, and customer lifecycle management, making it vital to sectors such as finance and telecommunications. Its innovative products help businesses optimize outcomes through real-time analytics, business composability, and scenario management.

📋 Description

• Lead, develop, and coach a high-performing engineering team • Recruit top talent and set direction for hiring strategies • Drive design and implementation of AI solutions for LLM-powered decision automation, fraud detection, and process optimization • Partner with stakeholders and product managers to translate business priorities into engineering roadmaps • Define best practices for model evaluation, governance, and monitoring • Build and maintain systems for continuous model monitoring, A/B testing, backtesting, and drift detection • Collaborate with UX designers, product teams, and engineering leaders to align AI capabilities across the platform • Set the technical vision for robust, scalable, and responsibly governed AI systems • Deliver transformative AI solutions addressing real business challenges and advancing FICO's platform capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience building and leading engineering teams delivering advanced AI solutions • Deep expertise in Large Language Models and their application to decision automation, fraud detection, and process optimization • 15+ years of industry experience in software, machine learning, or data engineering • Experience leading complex, large-scale projects and applying LLMs to real-world challenges • Effective leadership, coaching, and mentoring experience • Hands-on experience with model fine-tuning, in-context learning, and custom evaluation frameworks • Strong command of backtesting, A/B testing, and drift detection methodologies • Understanding of model monitoring, governance, and compliance practices • Ability to architect scalable, secure AI and data-driven systems • Familiarity with AI compliance and regulatory requirements • Working knowledge of modern software engineering practices and design patterns • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or a related field

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive culture reflecting core values • Professional development and valuable learning experiences • Competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs • Work/life balance • Employee resource groups • Social events • Support to develop skills and grow your career • Equal employment and advancement opportunities