American Express
Director - AI Engineering - Mobile Engineering
New York, NY · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 11, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems, plus strong experience with LLM systems, agentic workflows, or advanced ML infrastructure.
- Visa sponsorship
- American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions, depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost, and applicable laws.
About the job
Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise agentic AI systems and teams, with a focus on production-ready platforms and customer-facing experiences.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and oversee design, development, and operation of shared agentic AI capabilities and systems.
- Lead, hire, mentor, and develop engineering teams; guide design reviews and cross-team delivery.
- Partner with Product, UX, and enterprise stakeholders to shape agentic AI roadmaps and deliver initiatives from concept to production.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems, plus strong experience with LLM systems, agentic workflows, or advanced ML infrastructure.
- Strong experience leading and growing engineering teams through complex deliveries.
- Experience leading projects through the full software development lifecycle as a technical leader.
- Deep experience across the agentic AI stack, including planning, tool use, memory, and evaluation.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic systems in fintech or other regulated industries.
- Experience as a founding engineer or early technical leader in AI-driven products.
Pay
USD $144250 - $256250 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
AI focus
Leads development of agentic AI platforms and systems, including orchestration, planning, tool use, memory, retrieval and grounding, LLM infrastructure, evaluation, observability, and safety.
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