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About the role

  • Director of Engineering co-leading Lazer’s AI-powered forward-deployed engineering team. Guiding architecture, talent, client engagements, AI standards, and technical delivery at a digital product studio.

Responsibilities

  • Co-own the AI engineering team of roughly 30 forward deployed engineers alongside existing engineering leaders
  • Own team health and happiness through regular 1:1s and early intervention on disengagement, burnout, and bench frustration
  • Run performance reviews against the FDE rubric
  • Develop the team through training sessions, playbooks, checklists, pairing, and internal writeups
  • Define and maintain baseline AI competency standards
  • Codify best engineering practices and distill field learnings into reusable patterns
  • Track engagement health across the portfolio and surface delivery and client-relationship risks
  • Review architectures and pressure-test technical approaches
  • Guide evaluation strategy, instrumentation, and impact measurement
  • Step onto engagements as technical lead when needed
  • Partner with talent on sourcing, hiring-manager screens, interviewer calibration, and the technical bar
  • Staff engagements based on skill, growth, and client fit while balancing utilization and development
  • Support scoping and pre-sales conversations
  • Act as senior escalation point for clients and partners

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience
  • 3+ years directly managing senior engineers, including hiring, performance management, and difficult conversations
  • Experience leading teams of 15+ engineers across concurrent projects or engagements
  • Ability to read architectures, identify flaws, and propose improvements
  • Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python or Go
  • Proven experience building and shipping production agentic applications with orchestration and tool-calling patterns
  • Experience setting up evaluation harnesses and testing infrastructure for agentic applications using real prompts and business metrics
  • Familiarity with MLOps or LLMOps, including monitoring, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Practical AI-native use of coding agents, harnesses, and workflows
  • Consulting, agency, or forward deployed engineering experience
  • Ability to manage client expectations and timelines
  • Track record of developing people through training, onboarding, or mentorship structures
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and making decisions independently
  • Exceptional communication across executives, staff engineers, and written updates
  • Nice to have: enterprise experience in financial services, healthcare, or retail
  • Nice to have: experience scaling forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or professional services teams
  • Nice to have: AI enablement or developer productivity program experience
  • Nice to have: founder, CTO, or early venture-backed startup experience
  • Nice to have: LLM fine-tuning experience
  • Nice to have: Kubernetes and container orchestration familiarity
  • Nice to have: scalable data pipeline or data lake design experience
  • Nice to have: relevant certifications, open-source contributions, or technical publications

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Work from anywhere / flexible workspace
  • Full healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
  • 401(k) for US employees
  • Regular team retreats
  • Company vacations
  • Regular events
  • Professional growth across multiple industries and cutting-edge projects
  • Continuous learning and knowledge sharing
  • Minimal meetings and real autonomy

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactTypeScriptGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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