Egen

Egen is seeking a high-impact Director of Engineering to lead a vital span of their AI Practice during a period of explosive growth. This is a dynamic player-coach role for a strategic engineering leader who excels at cultivating managerial talent and developing high-performing teams while staying directly engaged in transformative client delivery. The AI Practice comprises top-tier engineers delivering cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions for global enterprise clients. As the first dedicated engineering leader in this role, you will take full ownership of a team, shaping team structure, staffing engagements, and fostering professional growth. You will also partner with practice leadership to refine operational frameworks for hiring, onboarding, and engineering enablement. Approximately 50% of your role will be billable client engagement, positioning you as a high-value fractional advisor and platform leader across critical technical domains.

$218k - $265k

As a Lead AI Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our Generative AI initiatives, treating AI as a software engineering discipline. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our AI features, specifically document intelligence and RAG pipelines, taking them from initial prototype to robust, scalable production services. You will solve for real-world constraints like latency, error handling, and cost optimization. You’ll collaborate with a diverse range of clients to translate business needs into high-performance AI architectures. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise in LLMs and a disciplined Software Engineering approach to ensure our solutions are robust, ethical, and scalable.

$159k - $230k

Egen is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to set the technical direction for complex Generative AI projects and be hands-on in building them. This role treats AI as a software engineering discipline, focusing on architecting robust production systems and elevating the skills of surrounding engineers. You will tackle challenging problems involving agentic platforms at scale, foundation model work, and AI in regulated environments, taking systems from ambiguous business problems to scalable production services that address real-world constraints like latency, reliability, cost, and governance. You will also serve as the technical lead in client engagements, partnering with leadership to translate business strategy into AI architecture, shape solutions during pre-sales, and build trust.

$219k - $265k

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our Generative AI initiatives, treating AI as a software engineering discipline. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of our AI features, specifically document intelligence and RAG pipelines, taking them from initial prototype to robust, scalable production services. You will solve for real-world constraints like latency, error handling, and cost optimization. You’ll collaborate with a diverse range of clients to translate business needs into high-performance AI architectures. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise in LLMs and a disciplined Software Engineering approach to ensure our solutions are robust, ethical, and scalable.

$159k - $219k