Director, AI & Agentic Engineering

The role

You will lead a team of AI and machine learning engineers to design and deliver production-grade AI solutions. This includes managing LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, and the pipelines that power them.

What you will do

• Lead the design, build, and optimization of production AI systems
• Define and standardize context engineering practices
• Direct the build of robust agent harnesses
• Lead the design and operation of fine-tuning and model adaptation pipelines
• Architect and deploy solutions on Google Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of AI and ML engineers
• Support pre-sales activities including scoping engagements and building demos
• Oversee the development of classical and modern ML models
• Partner with senior leadership to shape GenAI architecture direction

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering and AI
• 2–3 years working on LLM architecture, agentic design, and harness and context engineering
• Expertise in generative AI/LLM engineering
• Expertise in cloud-native software architecture with proven production deployments
• Master’s degree (or higher) in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on command of agentic SDKs (LangGraph/LangChain, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK)
• Hands-on command of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor)
• Hands-on command of modern full-stack frameworks (TypeScript/React front ends; Python/Node backends)
• Experience designing cloud architectures: microservices, serverless, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Solid grasp of AI system design: agents, tool use, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, observability, and LLMOps
• Experience with data and context modeling and ingestion/processing pipelines on data lakes and data warehouses
• Deep experience with Google Gemini Enterprise / Vertex AI

Nice to have

• basic working knowledge of Microsoft AI Foundry and AWS Bedrock

Benefits

• competitive benefits

About the company

Artefact is a consulting firm that transforms data into value and business impact. It has 2000 employees across 36 offices and specializes in data, analytics and AI consulting.