Director of Engineering
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Company: Dynamo AI
Location: New York NY or London (in person 4 days per week)
Compensation: $385000 - $550000 base; total compensation $1M - $1.5M with equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa sponsorship available (H-1B O-1 OPT)
Dynamo AI helps regulated enterprises including Fortune 500 companies and top global banks deploy AI that is reliable secure observable and production-ready with evaluation frameworks real-time guardrails hallucination checks and red-teaming. Experian is among its public customers.
Founded in 2021 Dynamo AI closed a $19M Series A and is growing toward 100 people.
Dynamo AI is hiring a Director of Engineering to scale its engineering organization from about 25 people to a significantly larger globally distributed team with direct accountability for hiring leadership development operating cadence and technical execution.
- Build out engineering from roughly 25 to 100 people across regions.
- Hire and develop engineering leaders.
- Set operating cadence and technical execution standards.
- Provide credibility across AI engineering and production deployment infrastructure.
- Represent engineering externally through technical communication.
- Scaled an engineering org from about 25 to 100 people with direct accountability
- Global distributed team leadership
- Technical depth across AI engineering and deployment infrastructure
- Post-Series B scaling experience at a high-growth company
- Top-tier university background
- Experience at leading AI-native or infrastructure companies
Total compensation $1M-$1.5M including equity.
REVENUE: 15% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $58K-$83K; 1 seat(s).
TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Decagon Sierra Scale AI Databricks Arize AI Robust Intelligence Palantir.
BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 12 (org scaling) yrs; scaled eng org 25->100; post-Series B scaling; AI deployment depth; top-tier university; visa: sponsorship available; location: NYC or London 4 days. Avoid titles without org scope seed-to-B-only stories never past 50 people. Ideal companies: Decagon Sierra Cognition ElevenLabs Replit Clay Hightouch Vanta Linear Modal Together AI Fireworks AI.