Director of AI Engineering

Job description

About the Role This is not a rebranded Director of Engineering. It is a new position purpose-built for a new way of building software. Cover Whale is operating an agentic engineering model where pods of product managers, engineers, and AI agents deliver production software together. The Director of AI Platform Engineering owns the platform those pods operate on — the agent orchestration layer, trust boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls, and evaluation pipelines that make it safe and effective to delegate work to AI at production scale. You will be a player-coach: hands-on building the platform while also leading and developing the engineering team. Your mandate is to ensure that humans and AI agents collaborate safely, reliably, and at velocity. What You'll Own: Human-in-the-loop boundaries — setting trust thresholds where AI-generated output is auto-approved versus escalated for review configurations meet production standards before reaching a human reviewer output becomes production code - Agentic Platform Architecture - Prompt and spec evaluation pipelines — the systems that validate whether AI-generated code, tests, and - The end-to-end specification-through-deployment pipeli...