Associate Director, AI Ops Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Vista Equity Partners

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Finance • Enterprise

Vista Equity Partners is a leading investment firm that focuses on software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. The firm employs a long-term investment strategy, aiming to create value through operational improvements and strategic growth. Vista is recognized for its expertise in helping portfolio companies enhance their operations and drive innovation in their respective markets.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and iterate on agentic AI systems, moving from validated concept to production grade capability with clear stage gates and measurable outcomes. • Design and build intuitive, accessible interfaces for agentic AI products, partnering with solution owners to translate concepts and prototypes into production-ready experiences. • Own hands-on implementation of agent architectures (single-agent, multi-agent, human-in-the-loop) across a range of enterprise use cases, and build the production stack that supports them, including interfaces, APIs and data integrations, identity and access, data and memory, infrastructure, and observability. • Develop and stress-test reference implementations for core agentic capabilities, including tool use, memory, planning, orchestration, and inter-agent communication, to establish what works reliably at enterprise scale. • Design abstraction layers and reusable infrastructure components that preserve vendor independence across large language model (LLM) providers, orchestration frameworks, and cloud environments. • Help onboard and enable AI tools built across the practices onto a shared platform, so that capabilities run on common infrastructure, standards, and governance. • Define and evolve technical standards for agent development: model selection, prompt architecture, autonomy calibration, observability, and guardrails, ensuring every capability is built on a foundation that can survive production. • Establish evaluation frameworks and scoring rubrics for agent performance, reliability, and safety that can be operationalized consistently across the platform. • Partner across product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders, translating validated field patterns into reusable platform capabilities and managing stakeholders across multiple teams and companies simultaneously. • Continuously assess the frontier of agentic AI, including new models, frameworks, tooling, and architectural patterns, and translate findings into concrete recommendations for what to build, buy, or watch. • Serve as a practitioner voice on generative AI and agentic systems, contributing to Vista's thought leadership and helping shape the platform's technical direction in partnership with leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field • 3+ years of experience in AI/ML platform architecture and development, with deep recent experience (2+ years) in generative AI and agentic architectures in production applications • Demonstrated track record of shipping AI applications to production environments, not just prototypes • Strong understanding of public cloud AI services and the ability to architect vendor-agnostic solutions with appropriate abstraction layers • Depth in front-end engineering and UI/UX design, including hands-on experience shipping polished, user-facing interfaces, is a strong plus for this role • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills • Experience within private equity portfolio companies, consulting, or multi-client environments is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. • Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.