The AI Enablement team at 84.51° is seeking a Director of Software Engineering for its Agentic Foundations team to design, develop, and maintain the agentic backbone of the Kroger enterprise
Requirements
- 7+ years professional experience with cloud-based software architecture focused on scalability, performance, and reliability
- 7+ years professional experience with end-to-end SDLC leveraging CI/CD and AIOps/MLOps, including experience with agentic SDLC tooling
- 7+ years professional experience with large-scale AI/ML systems, including 2+ years with GenAI and deep learning methods
- Professional experience with production-grade agentic systems, including concepts like design and development, evals, deployment, and monitoring
- Professional experience with AI/ML frameworks and tooling (PyTorch, OpenAI SDK, LangChain, autogen)
- Professional experience with AIOps/MLOps tooling and concepts (MLflow, Model Registry, Model Monitoring)
- Professional experience with scaling and deploying AI/ML systems using tooling in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, and API development (in particular FastAPI)
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of engineers, guiding them in the design and development of their product/platform areas and in the management of their own reports
- Provide in-depth technical leadership in the scoping and implementation of enterprise-grade solutions to support agents across the Kroger enterprise
- Provide operational leadership across agentic platforms, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, observability, and incident management
- Maintain an up-to-date expertise on agentic workflows, frameworks, platforms, and best practices to identify and inform new capabilities for implementation
- Reduce the development time of the team by leveraging agentic SDLC tooling provided by the enterprise
- Lead the abstraction of tooling and services to user-friendly interfaces like APIs, Python packages, or UIs
- Guide the development teams to follow software development standards, including version control, documentation, testing, and support
Other
- Partner with the Director of Product Management for Agentic Foundations to jointly lead the space for the Kroger enterprise
- Lead and manage hiring efforts for engineers on the Agentic Foundations team, including finding interview panelists, writing interview guides and questions, and assisting with coding screening questions
- Own and manage offshore reliability engineering teams
- Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment, encouraging professional growth and development among team members
- Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
