Head of Engineering

Board of Innovation • New York, NY

1d • Remote

About The Position

BOI is hiring a Head of Engineering to own the technical direction and engineering quality of client AI builds, from initial prototypes through production deployment in client environments. The role shapes solution architecture across models, cloud providers, and platforms, and establishes engineering standards for AI evaluation, security, data governance, observability, and production reliability. It also develops reusable components, patterns, and internal products that improve future engagements.

The Head of Engineering serves as BOI’s senior technical voice with client CTOs, CIOs, and business executives. This includes explaining technical decisions in terms of cost, risk, and value; leading security, compliance, and procurement reviews; and working directly in client environments alongside their teams.

The role partners with Directors of Applied AI to scope and estimate proposed builds, and turns completed work into case studies, reusable intellectual property, and technical thought leadership. It leads, coaches, and grows the engineering team, which is expected to roughly double over the next year, sets high standards and feedback practices, and promotes AI-first engineering workflows. The Head of Engineering also works with BOI’s leadership team in the US and Europe to help build the company.

The position is listed as US remote with Eastern Hours. BOI also offers hybrid working for employees based out of NYC.

Requirements

• Experience shipping AI systems to production at enterprise scale in environments with meaningful security, compliance, and data constraints.
• Experience leading engineering in a consultancy, agency, or other project-based environment.
• Comfort working on projects that change shape every few months and with technology stacks not personally selected.
• Experience founding a company or joining a startup at an early stage.
• Ability to build a team as well as a technical system and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical executives.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and engineering quality of every client build, from first prototype to production in the client’s environment.
• Shape solution architecture across models, clouds, and platforms, and make defensible build, buy, or configure decisions.
• Set engineering standards for AI output evaluation, security, data governance, observability, and production reliability.
• Build reusable components, patterns, and internal products for future engagements.
• Serve as BOI’s senior technical voice with client CTOs, CIOs, and business executives.
• Explain technical choices in terms of cost, risk, and value so non-technical leaders can make decisions.
• Lead client security, compliance, and procurement reviews and help obtain approval to run systems in client environments.
• Work directly in client environments, building alongside client teams and continuing as relationships grow.
• Scope and estimate builds for proposals with Directors of Applied AI.
• Turn completed work into case studies, reusable intellectual property, and technical thought leadership.
• Lead, coach, and grow the engineering team, with a goal of roughly doubling its size over the next year.
• Set high standards, provide direct feedback, and generously credit team members.
• Run AI-first ways of working across engineering and model those tools and workflows.
• Help build BOI alongside its leadership team in the US and Europe.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits.
• 401(k).
• 25 days PTO.
• Hybrid working if based out of NYC.
• Professional development support.
• Opportunity to work alongside leading AI practitioners on high-impact enterprise transformations.
• Freedom to prototype, experiment, and push boundaries on what is possible with AI.
• Technical direction-setting responsibility at a growing AI company and opportunities to build skills at the frontier of AI.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed