Director of Engineering

🕒 August 27

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $215k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Zignal Labs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $15M Debt Financing - Zignal Labs on 2019-01

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

Zignal Labs is a technology company that provides an agentic intelligence platform for national security and defense users. Its platform delivers persistent, analyst-directed workflows that collect and enrich multimodal signals at scale, produce structured intelligence outputs and alerts via APIs, and enable earlier warning and sustained decision advantage for protecting people, facilities, and missions across political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure and physical environments.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and scale software teams across full stack engineering, core application services, data engineering, and AI/ML integrations • Drive technical strategy, application architecture, and delivery across frontend, backend, and AI feature teams • Architect and execute user-facing web platforms integrating UI workflows, backend APIs, and real-time AI model inference • Collaborate with Data Science and Product teams to operationalize and productize advanced AI capabilities, including LLMs, computer vision, and narrative detection • Transform the engineering lifecycle to an AI-first SDLC using AI-assisted coding, automated code review, and intelligent CI/CD pipelines • Implement an AI-driven automated QA strategy using generative testing and self-healing test suites • Support high-performance, enterprise-ready applications for national security operations

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • 4+ years in engineering leadership managing full stack and software development teams • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field • Proven track record of shipping and scaling enterprise-grade full stack web applications leveraging production AI/ML services • Experience leading implementation of AI-augmented development environments and CI/CD pipelines • Strong understanding of shifting quality left through AI-driven automated testing strategies • Experience operationalizing AI-driven services and integrating machine learning models into robust, scalable full-stack web applications • Success recruiting, hiring, and retaining top-tier remote engineering talent • Experience supporting software delivery for DoD, IC, or defense contractor environments preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI data intelligence • Work supporting mission-critical defense and intelligence programs worldwide • Opportunity to shape engineering culture • Lead top-tier software talent • Build applications powering national security decisions