Principal Engineer; Director - Mobile Engineering

Principal Engineer (Director) - Mobile Engineering

Serves as the technical leader for integrating AI across native iOS and Android engineering teams. Drives adoption and effective use of AI-enabled capabilities throughout the Agile delivery workflow, enabling engineers to leverage technologies such as Cursor, LLM-based IDE integrations (Xcode, Android Studio), and emerging AI developer tooling across the software development lifecycle. Champions a culture of rapid learning, experimentation, and collaborative engagement, ensuring actionable feedback informs evolving strategies and implementation plans.

• Partners closely with Principal Engineers, Engineering Directors, Enterprise Architecture, and squad Tech Leads to advise on complex technical challenges, producing high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions.
• Conducts solution reviews, provides hands‑on coaching, and recommends improvements to development patterns, workflows, tools, and standards.
• Leads core mobile engineering practices – architecting scalable iOS and Android solutions, optimizing performance, and ensuring code quality and security.
• Guides teams through complex integrations, modernization initiatives, and platform‑specific challenges while partnering with feature teams and UX to deliver intuitive, high‑performing experiences.
• Communicates complex concepts clearly and effectively, both in writing and in presentations tailored to technical and executive audiences.
• Stays current with the rapidly evolving AI and Mobile ecosystems, researching new tools, frameworks, and models, assessing them objectively against business goals and constraints.
• Leads proof‑of‑concept efforts and educates the broader mobile engineering community internally and externally.

Required:

• 10+ years of hands‑on native mobile application development (iOS or Android)
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI tools (e.g., Cursor or similar, LLMs) into mobile development workflows
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and operationalize new technologies
• Track record of leading technical teams and delivering results in Agile environments
• Strong technical expertise in mobile development and AI‑assisted developer tools
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience

Preferred:

• Demonstrated success leading cross‑functional and/or transformation initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to present to technical and executive audiences
• Experience facilitating working groups, community forums, or feedback‑driven process evolution

• Define and drive an evolving strategy for AI adoption within mobile engineering
• Lead integration of AI tooling across ideation, coding, testing, and code review
• Establish and maintain best practices for AI‑assisted development (e.g., “Rules” in Cursor) tailored to iOS and Android
• Ensure appropriate code‑quality, privacy, and IP safeguards when integrating AI tooling
• Leverage MCP Servers to extend AI integration across various tools
• Promote spec‑driven development to ensure AI‑generated code aligns with clearly defined contracts, behaviors, and acceptance criteria; encourage developers to use structured specifications to guide prompt engineering, code generation, and automated validation

• Create and lead a working group to gather input, share learnings, and provide ongoing direction
• Foster an inclusive environment that encourages peer contribution to process and tool evolution
• Communicate strategy, progress, and outcomes to developers, leaders, and digital executives

• Monitor, measure, and refine processes to ensure AI enables creativity, innovation, and efficiency
• Continuously incorporate feedback and industry trends to keep tooling and approaches current and effective
• Objectively assess emerging technologies through prototypes and proof of concepts

• A comprehensive, living strategy for AI adoption‑accessible to both developers and executives
• Documented best practices and evolving processes for AI‑assisted workflows
• Platform‑specific coding…