AI Director

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🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +32 more states – Remote

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💵 $190k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Emergent Software

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2003

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Healthcare • SaaS

Emergent Software is a software development and consulting company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company specializes in custom software development, including websites, web applications, mobile apps, and business process automation. Emergent Software also offers services in database and analytics, Azure cloud consulting, and DevOps. The company acts as a full-stack technology partner for businesses, providing services from design to deployment, with a focus on long-term client partnerships. Additionally, Emergent Software provides staffing services through its sister company, Emergent Staffing, for roles in software development, cloud engineering, and more.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture and technical direction for AI capabilities across the product portfolio • Define roadmaps for current and next-generation AI systems • Design scalable agentic workflows, personalization capabilities, and AI-driven customer experiences • Establish standards for memory, context management, prompts, evaluation frameworks, RAG, knowledge representation, ontologies, and reusable AI patterns • Lead AI integrations across .NET, Node, Go, and Java platforms • Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and AI infrastructure • Remain hands-on with architecture, prototyping, software development, and reference implementations • Lead build-versus-buy decisions for AI platforms, frameworks, and infrastructure • Partner with Platform Engineering on infrastructure, evaluation systems, runtime environments, and governance • Advise engineering leadership on AI strategy and long-term technical direction • Lead and mentor the AI team, including engineers and contractors • Foster technical excellence through design reviews, coaching, and architectural guidance • Collaborate with engineering leaders, product teams, and organizational stakeholders • Support product engineering teams adopting AI capabilities • Explore and deliver new AI use cases, products, and greenfield opportunities • Lead initiatives involving agent harnesses, personalized content generation, and future MCP implementations • Participate in technical due diligence and AI capability assessments for potential acquisitions • Identify practical AI opportunities that create measurable business value • Establish AI governance, model selection, hosting strategy, tenant isolation, and data privacy practices • Partner with Legal, Information Security, and IT on enterprise AI requirements • Ensure AI solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory expectations

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant architecture and technical leadership responsibilities • Proven experience designing, deploying, and scaling production AI, machine learning, RAG, or agentic systems • Deep understanding of modern AI architecture, including LLM applications, RAG, memory, context management, evaluation frameworks, knowledge graphs, ontologies, and AI/ML techniques • Strong hands-on software engineering background • Experience leading technical strategy, architecture decisions, and AI roadmaps • Ability to work across .NET, Node, Go, and Java technology stacks • Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and executive stakeholders • Experience leading teams while maintaining direct technical contribution • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving SaaS environments • Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship • Residence in one of the listed eligible U.S. states • Willingness to complete an online assessment including a short cognitive evaluation • Willingness to complete a criminal background check prior to employment • Nice-to-have: experience with agentic AI, agent orchestration, agent harnesses, MCP, knowledge graphs, ontologies, semantic search, graph databases, vector databases, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, AWS Bedrock, Braintrust, LangSmith, LangFuse, technical due diligence, regulated industries, or high-growth SaaS organizations

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Direct-hire position • Diverse and inclusive workplace commitment • Criminal background check required for new hires and contractors