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Director of AI Engineering

Job in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, 27703, USA
Listing for: Prestige Staffing
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-11
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 230000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 230000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

We’re partnering with an established, industry-leading organization that’s making a significant investment in Artificial Intelligence and building a new AI Engineering practice. This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level and help define the company’s AI strategy, architecture, and engineering standards while remaining deeply hands-on with the technology.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who enjoys building enterprise AI solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving the adoption of Microsoft’s modern AI ecosystem.

What You’ll Do
  • Lead the design, development, and deployment of enterprise AI solutions using Microsoft’s AI platform.
  • Build AI-powered applications leveraging Azure AI, LLMs, agentic AI, and Microsoft Fabric.
  • Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities to automate high-value manual processes through AI.
  • Establish engineering best practices for AI development, deployment, governance, and scalability.
  • Build and mentor a growing AI Engineering team while remaining hands-on with architecture and development.
  • Collaborate closely with Data Engineering and Application Development teams to integrate AI capabilities across the organization.
What We’re Looking For
  • Experience leading engineering teams as a Manager, Director, Principal, or Lead.
  • Strong hands‑on experience within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, One Lake, or related Microsoft data platform technologies.
  • Experience building and deploying Generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI or Microsoft’s AI platform.
  • Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, or agentic AI solutions.
  • Experience building or scaling new engineering capabilities, platforms, or practices is highly preferred.
  • Consulting or Microsoft partner experience is a plus.

If you’re passionate about building production AI solutions and want the opportunity to make a lasting impact while working with Microsoft’s modern AI stack, we’d love to connect.

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