DigitalOcean is building developer-first AI capabilities directly into their platform and is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the technical execution and long-term vision for their AI engineering efforts, delivering intuitive, performant, and scalable AI features to help customers build smarter applications.
Requirements
- Deep experience delivering AI/ML-enabled products or developer tools at scale.
- Strong technical expertise in machine learning systems, infrastructure, and cloud-native architecture.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy and execution for AI features and services across the DigitalOcean platform.
- Build and scale a team that develops customer-facing ML-powered tools, APIs, and platform integrations.
- Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and design to translate AI ideas into production-ready features.
- Ensure high standards of security, performance, and reliability in AI systems.
- Stay on top of trends in the AI/ML space to identify emerging opportunities that align with customer needs.
- Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and curiosity within the team.
Other
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles.
- Ability to connect the dots between customer needs, AI opportunities, and product capabilities.
- Effective communicator who can operate across engineering, data, and product functions.
- Experience mentoring and scaling inclusive, high-performing teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- This is a remote role
