Harness Engineer, Director

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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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 a new internal Harness Engineering team that enables AI coding agents to work reliably at scale • Design, build, and evolve harness components, guides, feedback loops, guardrails, and shared context • Build and maintain agent instruction files, reusable skills, architectural rules, reference documents, and codemods • Build feedback sensors, custom linters, architecture-fitness tests, verification loops, and LLM-as-judge reviewers • Own regional AI governance, including agent authority boundaries, LLM testing infrastructure, and quality, safety, and compliance thresholds • Define and own cross-organizational QA and quality-gating standards • Run steering loops to prevent recurring agent mistakes and maintain repository knowledge as the system of record • Decide where controls run throughout the path to production • Establish observability into agent work and track engineering quality and delivery metrics • Manage, coach, and grow a geographically distributed team of harness engineers • Partner with engineering leaders and product management to align harness controls with specifications and delivery roadmaps • Provide internal enablement, presentations, and thought leadership on agent-augmented engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering background with experience in large, complex codebases • Hands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar • Experience building engineering tooling across a modern stack • Experience with linters and static analysis, CI/CD pipelines, containerized build/test environments, instrumentation, and observability • Familiarity with agent instruction conventions such as AGENTS.md • Experience with spec-driven development, context engineering, agent orchestration, fitness functions, and developer-platform work • Experience owning AI governance and cross-organizational quality standards • Experience establishing LLM testing infrastructure and quality gating for AI-generated artifacts • Working knowledge of autonomous-agent security, prompt injection, tool/permission scoping, sandboxed execution, and audit trails • Strong experience managing geographically distributed, high-performing engineering teams • Excellent communication and consensus-building skills • Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related discipline, or relevant experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing • Ability or interest to evangelize internally and gather user feedback

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs • Work/life balance • Employee resource groups • Social events • Learning experiences and professional development opportunities • Inclusive, people-first work environment