Engineering Director, Agentic AI Delivery

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

8h • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a visionary Engineering Director to lead delivery of next-generation Agentic AI initiatives. You will oversee multiple autonomous AI agent systems that interact with complex enterprise workflows, external APIs, and real-time data. Your role is to translate cutting-edge AI research into reliable, scalable, and secure production systems, while providing strategic clarity to executive leadership.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and deploying autonomous AI agents.
• Deep knowledge of LLMs, GenAI, vector databases, embeddings, and prompt engineering.
• Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with MLOps, observability, and AI security mitigation.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.
• Proven crisis management experience with autonomous systems.
• Strategic thinking to align technical execution with business goals.

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years in software engineering with 4+ years in leadership.
• Experience launching enterprise or consumer AI products.
• Background in RLHF or domain-specific LLM fine-tuning.
• Familiarity with AI regulatory frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical strategy for multi-agent AI systems.
• Own delivery roadmaps for high-priority agentic AI use cases.
• Communicate progress, risks, and metrics to the C-suite.
• Allocate engineering resources across competing projects.
• Transition agentic prototypes to production with robust guardrails and fail-safes.
• Establish standards for reliability, observability, and scalability.
• Optimize AI infrastructure for cost, latency, and performance.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards.
• Build and mentor high-performing teams of engineers and AI researchers.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Security teams to define capabilities and constraints.
• Foster a culture of innovation while maintaining production reliability.

Benefits

• paid vacation time
• paid sick leave
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• life, accident and disability insurance
• tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• employee assistance program
• other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• tuition reimbursement
• transit
• the Applause Program
• employee stock purchase plan
• the WD Savings 401(k) Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees