Senior Director, AI Platform Engineering – Enablement

Ford Motor Company

Senior Director leading AI platform engineering and strategy at Ford Motor Company. Overseeing integration and activation of AI capabilities across enterprise platforms.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This role requires a leader who brings deep technical knowledge of enterprise AI platforms and the strategic judgment to look across every platform EPEO offers — spanning leading AI and cloud platform providers — and define where AI belongs, what it should change, and how the organization gets there.
The Senior Director, AI Platform Engineering & Enablement brings two equally weighted mandates. On the engineering side, this leader applies deep technical judgment to evaluate, architect, and govern how AI capabilities are integrated across EPEO’s platform portfolio — ensuring what is deployed is the right capability, properly engineered, and fit for the business functions it serves.
On the enablement side, this leader ensures AI capabilities from our major providers are not just procured but actively activated, governed, and embedded into how our platforms operate.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of experience in technology, including significant hands-on platform strategy, enterprise architecture, or AI infrastructure leadership
Deep working knowledge of the enterprise AI provider landscape across leading cloud platforms, enterprise AI assistant and productivity platforms, and frontier AI model providers — able to evaluate technical capabilities and architectural fit, not just vendor positioning
Demonstrated experience assessing and rationalizing AI portfolios at enterprise scale — you have looked across a large organization’s AI landscape, identified what belongs and what doesn’t, and made recommendations that were acted on across business functions
Hands-on background in cloud platform architecture sufficient to evaluate AI capabilities at the architectural level — not just vendor positioning
Experience designing or governing enterprise AI governance, FinOps, and enablement frameworks from the ground up — not inheriting and maintaining, but building and standing up
Strong understanding of LLM architecture, agentic patterns, RAG, multi-model orchestration, and AI infrastructure primitives at enterprise scale
A strategically-oriented leader who combines technical credibility with the ability to drive organizational change through influence
Proven ability to operate with a long time horizon in an environment where the technology changes quarterly — holding a multi-year strategic view while remaining responsive to a rapidly evolving AI landscape
Experience leading in large, matrixed engineering organizations (5,000+ engineers) where influence without direct authority is the primary mode of getting things done
Genuine intellectual curiosity about the AI frontier — you follow research, engage vendors at the technical level, form independent views, and are rarely surprised by what ships
Track record of managing strategic AI vendor relationships with hyperscalers and AI-native companies at the architecture and roadmap level
Experience in a Fortune 500 or large-scale enterprise environment with complex regulatory, compliance, and security requirements
Demonstrated ability to build the business case for multi-million dollar AI platform investments and present to C-suite and board-level stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Infrastructure LeadershipEnterprise ArchitectureAI Portfolio AssessmentMulti-Model OrchestrationFinOps Framework Design

Soft Skills

Strategic LeadershipInfluence Without AuthorityIntellectual Curiosity