Sr. Dir., AI Engineering

Enterprise AI is ServiceNows horizontal capability team building the operating model technical foundation and Customer Zero motion for AI at enterprise scale including AI Control Tower the AI agent orchestrator and the AI agent fabric on the ServiceNow AI platform. 

As Senior Director AI Engineering you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the AI platform foundation the enterprise builds on: a hands-on leadership role owning ServiceNow Platform AI the enterprise LLM and model strategy and the advanced AI infrastructure that runs it all reliably at scale. 

In this role you will: 

• Lead ServiceNow Platform AI as the core of the enterprise AI foundation embedding AI Control Tower-style discovery observability and governance across Now Assist AI Agent Studio and Agent Fabric/Action Fabric. 

• Extend that same governance and reliability model to non-platform AI hyperscaler AI services third-party model providers and multi-model orchestration systems. 

• Drive the enterprise LLM and model strategy including model orchestration fine-tuning distillation function calling and LLMOps/MLOps pipelines for model deployment and lifecycle management. 

• Architect advanced AI infrastructure including GPU/TPU-accelerated and confidential computing environments ensuring data residency and sovereignty compliance across regulated environments. 

• Define the enterprise AI engineering strategy and roadmap establishing AI engineering standards reusable platform patterns and best practices across the organization. 

• Own the AI-ready data foundation trusted discoverable data pipelines feature and data serving layers and data quality standards that every model and agent depends on. 

• Own AI Security & Observability embedding identity- and access-driven controls into every AI agent action and building runtime telemetry for continuous visibility into model and agent behavior. 

• Build scale and retain a high-performing global organization of platform engineers data engineers and data scientists across the US and India. 

• Influence executive stakeholders on AI infrastructure investment build-vs-buy tradeoffs and platform strategy. 

Qualifications :

To be successful in this role you have: 

• Direct experience owning ServiceNow Platform AI capabilities (Now Assist AI Control Tower Agent Fabric/Action Fabric AI Agent Studio) alongside non-platform AI ecosystems (hyperscaler AI services across AWS/Azure/GCP third-party model providers multi-model orchestration platforms). 

• Proven experience architecting enterprise AI infrastructure including LLM integration fine-tuning orchestration agentic AI and multi-agent systems MCP-based integrations and LLMOps/MLOps pipelines for production model deployment. 

• Track record building the AI-ready data foundation that enterprise AI/ML depends on and demonstrated experience in AI Security & Observability including identity/access controls and runtime monitoring for AI agents and models. 

• Extensive experience leading and scaling globally distributed engineering organizations including platform engineers data engineers and data scientists with experience managing managers. 

• Deep hands-on expertise in large-scale distributed systems including high-performance high-availability architectures microservices and service mesh design and API-first/event-driven/streaming architectures (Kafka Spark). 

• Executive presence and the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders on AI/technology risk platform investment and build-vs-buy strategy. 

• Preferred: hands-on experience with GPU/TPU-accelerated and confidential computing platforms; cloud-native and hybrid cloud architecture expertise (AWS Azure GCP) Kubernetes/container orchestration and Infrastructure as Code; and a strong track record on security compliance and resilience (Zero Trust SRE/chaos engineering GDPR/CCPA). 

For positions in this location we offer a base pay of $251100 - $385000 plus equity (when applicable) variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications skill level competencies and work location. We also offer health plans including flexible spending accounts a 401(k) Plan with company match ESPP matching donations a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Additional Information :

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible remote or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity  veteran status or any other category protected by addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

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Export Control Regulations

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time