Director, AI Engineering

AI/ML Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of AI/ML engineers and data scientists.

• Shape the AI engineering roadmap through alignment with business goals and product strategy to deliver the right solutions in the needed timelines

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable AI/ML solutions for Tricentis’ product portfolio.

• Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• Spearhead MVP development and productization by rapidly prototyping and validating promising AI solutions through collaboration with AI product management and AI Research teams.

Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Lead the technical roadmap and architectural direction for AI/ML systems, through partnership with the Architecture teams.

• Supervise the evaluation and technology selection process for AI and AI supporting technologies, including budgeting and Engineering leadership alignment, that meet current and future needs.

• Oversee the development and deployment of domain specific machine learning models.

• Ensure robust, scalable, and optimized AI features for real-world application including effective evaluations of Agents.

• Collaborate in guiding technical research on emerging AI/ML models and technologies to pinpoint viable solutions for development and deployment.

Collaboration & Strategy

• Collaborate with product management, UX, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver AI driven features.

• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, allocate resources, and ensure timely delivery of projects.

• Work closely with DevOps to streamline the deployment of AI models into production environments.

• Establish and enforce ethical AI frameworks to promote fairness, mitigate bias, and maintain transparency in AI systems.

Leadership

• Supervise, mentor, and grow members of the AI/ML engineering team.

• Drive all aspects of recruiting, including attracting, building, and retaining a highly skilled team.

• Build and maintain a culture of accountability, accomplishment, continuous improvement, and teamwork.

Communication

• Communicate technical concepts, project status, and strategic vision to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Represent the AI/ML engineering team in executive meetings, customer engagements, and industry events.

• Build strong partnerships across functional areas to enable and support product growth 1

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in AI/ML engineering leadership roles.

• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams.

• Deep expertise in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, generative AI, and large language models.

• Strong programming skills in Python and other relevant languages (e.g., Java, SQL).

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps practices.

• Experience deploying AI models at scale in enterprise settings.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

Skills and Experiences that We Value

• Experience designing, developing, and shipping commercial software products.

• Familiarity with modern ML stack components, including GenAI, Agents, Semantic Search, and cost/performance optimization.

• Solid understanding of the customer journey from problem identification to solution implementation.

• Experience partnering with legal, engineering and product leadership to ensure high value AI inventions are systematically captured and protected.

• Demonstrated creativity, problem solving, and innovative thinking.

• Experience working in agile, globally distributed, cross-functional teams.

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally on occasion.

Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, religious affiliation, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or physical and mental disability and other statuses protected by law.
Global Sanctions Compliance

We comply with all applicable global sanctions and export control laws. Candidates must not be listed on any government restricted party lists (including OFAC SDN List and U.S. Commerce Department restricted lists) and must certify that their employment would not violate any sanctions or export control regulations. Candidates must notify us of any changes to their status during the application process or subsequent employment.

U.S. Work Authorization:

This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.