Head of AI – Program Technology Engineering

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🌐 United States, Kenya, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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💵 $185k - $200k / year

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INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1933

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🤲 Charity

Healthcare • Logistics • Charity

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE is a global humanitarian organization that responds to the world’s worst crises by helping people survive, recover and rebuild their lives. With a workforce of over 20,000 across more than 40 countries, the IRC delivers emergency relief, protection, health, education, and economic recovery services while partnering with local communities and donors to develop evidence-based, scalable solutions. The organization emphasizes integrity, accountability, equality, and staff support, and provides extensive programs and benefits for its global employees.

📋 Description

• Translate IRC's AI strategy and program priorities into a prioritized technical roadmap • Make build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions and set architectural direction for program-facing AI systems • Lead the design and development of AI-powered, program-facing solutions, including agentic systems, predictive analytics, and AI diagnostics • Manage and grow engineers, applied AI engineers, ML specialists, and QA specialists • Establish engineering quality standards, development practices, and documentation protocols • Maintain a prioritized backlog and manage team capacity against demand • Mature AI development and DevOps practices • Partner with program leaders across health, education, protection, resettlement, and emergency response to co-design field-ready solutions • Partner with Enterprise Applications and DevOps teams on handoffs, integrations, infrastructure dependencies, and engineering standards • Lead strategic partnerships with frontier AI organizations including Anthropic and OpenAI • Design and oversee high-availability architectures in Microsoft Azure with redundancy, security, backup, and recovery strategies • Research and recommend AI/ML technology products, services, and standards • Oversee deployment pipelines, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and QA processes • Ensure application availability and performance through monitoring, scaling, and proactive operations management • Track and optimize cloud and model-inference costs • Maintain technical and policy documentation • Represent IRC in technical discussions with partners, peer organizations, donors, and humanitarian and AI sectors • Report to the Chief Information Officer and work closely with the SVP for Research, Innovation, AI, and People & Culture

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and shipping production AI systems, including agentic frameworks, LLM applications, RAG systems, computer vision, or applied ML pipelines • Solid full-stack foundation in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks • Experience with cloud architecture; Azure preferred, AWS/GCP transferable • Experience with AI services, DevOps pipelines, and cost-effective scaling • Working knowledge of data security and privacy practices for sensitive or personally identifiable information • 7–10+ years in software engineering or technical product development • 3+ years leading engineers as a manager or tech lead • Track record of building or growing strong engineering teams • Ability to engage non-technical leaders as a peer and translate between technical and non-technical contexts • Comfort operating across global teams, time zones, and varied contexts • Genuine motivation by humanitarian impact • Humble, human-centered approach and respect for people closest to the problem • Technical curiosity and forward-looking mindset • Experience deploying AI in low-resource, low-bandwidth, or offline contexts preferred • Prior work with humanitarian, development, or global health organizations preferred • French or Arabic language skills preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Open to remote work • Hybrid/remote availability • Some travel may be required for partner meetings, field engagement, and sector conferences