
Executive Director, AI Software Engineering – Principal
Labcorp
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Burlington • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define the long‑term strategy and roadmap for applied AI and AI engineering capabilities supporting enterprise healthcare goals.
- Ensure alignment between AI engineering initiatives and organizational priorities, system requirements, and operational needs.
- Lead distributed engineering teams to deliver production‑grade AI systems with clear accountability and predictable execution.
- Oversee end‑to‑end development of AI systems including model lifecycle management, orchestration, deployment, and observability.
- Establish frameworks for AI evaluation, monitoring, safety, alignment, and incident response to ensure responsible and compliant AI operations.
- Define architectural direction for scalable AI platforms, distributed systems, and model‑serving infrastructure.
- Implement engineering best practices across Agile delivery, documentation, estimation, SRE, QA, and development workflows.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and senior‑level individual contributors.
- Oversee vendor relationships, cloud usage, and external integrations to ensure optimization of cost, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 10 or more years of leadership experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or applied AI roles.
- 5 or more years experience building and operating production AI systems including model development, MLOps, deployment pipelines, and observability.
- 5 or more years experience designing prompt architectures, system prompts, and multi‑component prompt flows.
- 5 or more years experience implementing agentic patterns for orchestration, planning, and autonomous workflows.
- 5 or more years experience defining and applying AI safety, evaluation, monitoring, and alignment frameworks in enterprise environments.
- 5 or more years experience leading distributed engineering teams across onshore and offshore models.
- 5 or more years experience designing distributed systems and AI platform architecture for scalable, reliable services.
- 5 or more years experience working with security, compliance, or regulatory frameworks relevant to AI and data environments.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k)
- Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI engineeringMLOpsmodel lifecycle managementorchestrationdeployment pipelinesobservabilitydistributed systemsAI platform architectureagentic patternsprompt architectures
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringaccountabilitycommunicationcollaborationstrategic planningteam managementorganizational alignmentproblem-solvingvendor management
Certifications
Bachelor's degree