Senior Director, Engineering - Applied AI

* 12+ years of software engineering experience including team leadership experience
* Significant recent focus on application of AI technologies including experience applying LLM models or systems to real-world products and workflows.
* Proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams in a production AI environment.
* Experience working with Embeddings, RAG, RLFH, Fine Tuning etc at enterprise scale
* Experience with Python and/or Typescript/Java script
* Experience designing or applying evals LLM models (LLMs), including prompt testing, grounding, hallucination detection, and performance benchmarking.
* Excellent communication skills and experience working on cross-functional initiatives.
* Experience working with large-scale data in Adtech or Advertising-related platforms is a plus.
* Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or similar systems is a plus.
* Experience with AI frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Tensor Flow, Hugging Face) and deploying models to cloud environments is a plus
* Experience with data pipelines and integration patterns is a plus including MLOps
* Hands-on experience implementing RAG architectures at scale and/or fine-tuning large language models.
* Experience with diffusion/image/video models is a nice to have
* Exposure to creative pipelines or AI-enhanced content workflows is a plus
* Background in statistical modeling or mathematics is a plus.
* Familiarity with data privacy, copyright, and ethical issues in applied AI applications is helpful but not needed
* Experience in the media, entertainment, or content-tech industry is a plus.
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