Director, Forward Deployed Engineer, PGS FIEET

ROLE SUMMARY

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering leader to collaborate and partner across high-performing, cross-functional software engineering teams. In this role, you will drive technical excellence, set technical direction, create space for innovation, and model the ownership behaviors that define our engineering culture.

Director role encompasses multi-team initiatives with high impact to the organization and its strategic goals. You’ll influence multiple teams, be recognized as a domain expert and navigate through complexity and ambiguity to deliver results.

• Collaborate and partner across high-performing, cross-functional software engineering teams
• Set technical direction and ensure alignment with organizational strategy
• Drive delivery excellence while maintaining code quality standards
• Create an environment that fosters curiosity, experimentation, and growth
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Model ownership behaviors and accountability for team outcomes

• Don't Lose Your Curiosity: Proactively investigates root causes; experiments with new technologies and AI capabilities; protects time for exploration; treats failure as learning; discovers requirements through immersion in problem spaces
• Own the Quality: Takes end-to-end ownership of features and systems; supports production operations; ensures quality over speed; never ships code without rigorous review; builds trust through rapid delivery of working solutions
• Think in Systems: Maps complex system interactions across technical and business domains; anticipates cascading effects; designs systems that degrade gracefully; understands how technology changes impact business operations
• Be Polymath Oriented: Applies knowledge from one domain to inform decisions in another; studies adjacent fields like design, business, or science; begins learning domain language of business partners
• Communicate with Precision: Writes clear documentation and specifications; reduces ambiguity in requirements; crafts effective prompts for AI tools; adapts communication style for different audiences

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, or applied AI
• Proven ability to build working prototypes and AI applications using modern languages and frameworks
• Experience in life sciences or manufacturing industries

• AI-Augmented Development: Optimize team AI tool usage, train others on AI-augmented workflows, evaluate new AI development tools, and balance AI speed with verification
• Business Immersion: Immerse in operations until you think like an insider, rapidly acquire domain expertise through direct observation, and mentor others on immersion techniques
• Knowledge Management: Lead knowledge management initiatives and create organizational knowledge systems
• Lean Thinking & Flow: Lead lean transformations, design flow-optimized systems, coach others, and balance speed with sustainability
• Stakeholder Management: Influence senior stakeholders, manage complex stakeholder landscapes, and build trust rapidly
• Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Build high-performing teams and handle complex interpersonal dynamics
• Technical Writing: Define documentation standards, create documentation systems, and train others on spec-driven development

• AI Evaluation & Verification: Design evaluation frameworks, test AI systems systematically, document limitations, and ensure verification depth
• AI Literacy: Evaluate AI solutions critically, understand bias, fairness, and hallucination risks, and know when AI helps vs hinders
• Site Reliability Engineering: Design observability strategies, lead incident response, and implement proactive resilience testing
• Time Management & Deep Work: Protect focus time, balance multiple priorities, and minimize context switching

• Architecture & Design: Explain common patterns (MVC, microservices) and contribute to architectural discussions
• Code Quality & Review: Write readable code, use linting tools, write basic tests, and participate in code reviews
• Dev Ops & CI/CD: Configure basic pipelines and understand containerization basics
• Full-Stack Development: Build simple features across frontend and backend using JavaScript or Python and understand how layers connect

Last Date to Apply for Job: 1/27/2026

Relocation assistance may be available based on needs and/or eligibility.

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