Director of Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY or London, UK
Experience: 5+ years
In-Office Requirement: 4 days per week

Base Salary: $385,000–$550,000 per year

Total Compensation: $1,000,000–$1,500,000, including equity

Equity: Equity package included

Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, and OPT sponsorship available

Dynamo AI builds infrastructure and software that help enterprises deploy AI systems that are reliable, secure, observable, scalable, and production-ready
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The company provides AI infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and real-time guardrails that enable regulated enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies and global financial institutions, to operationalize AI at scale.

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the continued expansion of the engineering organization from approximately 25 people toward a significantly larger, globally distributed team.

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• Lead the engineering organization through a period of rapid growth while maintaining execution quality and operating discipline.

• Scale the organization from approximately 25 engineers toward 100+ engineers.

• Design and evolve the organizational structure required to support a globally distributed engineering function.

• Establish effective management layers and cross-functional coordination mechanisms.

• Build and develop engineering leaders across the organization.

• Establish engineering planning and operating rhythms.

• Define prioritization frameworks, hiring standards, onboarding processes, and performance expectations.

• Build an engineering culture capable of maintaining high execution standards as the organization scales.

• Ensure effective collaboration across AI engineering and deployment engineering teams.

• Provide technical leadership and judgment across AI engineering, machine learning, deployment, and production infrastructure
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• Engage substantively with technical leaders across both AI development and production systems.

• Help shape the technical organization required to support reliable, scalable AI products.

• Maintain strong engineering standards across architecture, development, deployment, and production operations.

• Partner directly with the founders on organizational strategy and engineering headcount planning.

• Influence decisions affecting product development and go-to-market strategy.

• Represent the engineering organization with customers, partners, and the broader technical community.

• Serve as a credible public-facing technical leader for the company.

• Demonstrated experience scaling an engineering organization from approximately 25 to 100+ people
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• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment.

• Strong technical credibility across both AI engineering and deployment/production infrastructure
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• Experience operating through a significant organizational scaling phase beyond an early-stage engineering team.

• Strong experience building and developing engineering leaders.

• Excellent public-facing communication skills and the ability to represent engineering with customers, partners, and technical audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with founders and executive leadership on organizational and technical strategy.

• Education from a highly regarded university or equivalent demonstrated caliber through professional experience.

• Based in or willing to relocate to New York, NY or…