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Director of Engineering
AI Agents

Department
AI Engineering
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$300K–$450K
Work policy
On-site, 5 days/week
Position
Director of Engineering, AI Agents
Employment
Full-time · On-site
Experience
7+ years
01 — Overview

About the Role

Our client is looking for a Director of Engineering - AI Agents with 7+ years of experience to own and scale the company’s AI organization. You’ll lead the team building production LLM-powered agents that automate critical workflows in the trillion-dollar insurance industry. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing, a16z-backed startup as the engineering leader who shapes the technical direction of the entire AI org. Both founders are engineers, and you’ll have an outsized say on product direction while building your team from the ground up.

02 — Responsibilities

What will you be doing?

  • Own and grow the AI org, scaling it into three teams: AI infrastructure (routing & reliability), Agent intelligence (evals, shared tools, multimodal pipelines), and Agentic products (customer-facing AI assistant, long-running workflows)
  • Set technical direction for building agents that hold up in real production on real customer money — including model routing, multi-agent orchestration, and reliability
  • Recruit, mentor, and retain a world-class team of AI engineers, hiring the leaders beneath you as the org scales post-Series A
  • Stay deeply technical — still in the code and architecture, setting the bar by example
  • Push the frontier of what AI agents can do for insurance as the field evolves
03 — The Details

Role Details

Salary$300K - $450K base salary + competitive equity
On-site work policy5 days in-office in San Francisco
EmploymentFull-time position
LocationSan Francisco, CA
EquityCompetitive equity
Visa sponsorshipOpen to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers) and visa sponsorships (e.g. new H1B, TN)
Tech stack
LLMs Agentic AI Python Multi-agent orchestration Model routing Evaluation frameworks Multimodal pipelines
Why this role

Highlights

01

Backed by top investors including a16z, Y Combinator, Nexus, South Park Commons, and Converge, with $30M in total funding.

02

The platform supports customers writing over $15B in premiums across all 50 states, serving leading insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, and brokers.

03

A workflow that previously took an underwriter 6–8 hours, like processing a submission, can now be completed in as little as 10–15 minutes.

04

Both founders are engineers. You’ll have an outsized say on product direction while building the AI org from the ground up.
What we need

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering and managing teams at a VC-backed startup
  • Experience building production LLM-powered agents, including model routing, multi-agent orchestration, and reliability
  • Track record recruiting, mentoring, and retaining AI engineers, and hiring leaders as an org scales
  • Still deeply technical — in the code and architecture, setting the bar by example
  • Must be on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week