Jobs · Engineering · California

Director of Engineering - AI

CommerceIQ · Mountain View, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$200/hrFull-time

The Problem

We have thousands of enterprise users, proven product-market fit across digital shelf analytics, retail media, and sales operations, and the Fortune 100 running on our platform. That part works. Now we are building something new: autonomous AI agents that are already in customer hands and scaling fast. This is a 0-to-1 build inside a company that has the distribution, the data, and the customers to make it real.

What You'll Do

  • Build the Future of Commerce AI
    • Architect and evolve the platform for the agentic era
    • Push the frontier on AI-assisted development
    • Ship AI agents into production with speed and reliability
    • Be the technical face of the company externally
  • Recruit and retain world-class engineering talent
  • Create a strong engineering leadership bench
  • Own engineering execution
  • Drive continuous improvement in margins and cost structure

What You'll Bring

  • Built and scaled engineering teams
  • Technical and hands-on, able to review technical designs
  • AI-native, using AI development tools, opinions on LLM orchestration, agent architectures, and AI's impact on the software development lifecycle
  • Urgency, operating with startup pace, weekly shipping cadence
  • Talent magnet, best engineers want to work with you again, network of strong technical leaders
  • Want to be in the room, decisions made face-to-face

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base: Competitive with top-tier Silicon Valley companies. Commensurate with experience.
  • Equity: Significant pre-IPO stock options.
  • Benefits: Full medical, dental, vision. 401(k). Unlimited PTO.

Why Join Now

  • The window is now. The company has product-market fit, revenue, and customers.
  • The AI Labs team is being built right now. In 12 months this team will be set.
  • The founding members will define the culture, the architecture, and the trajectory.
  • This is the moment to lead a team doing real AI, not AI theater.
  • Fortune 100 scale. Your decisions will directly affect how 2,200+ brands run their ecommerce.
  • The economics of joining at this stage, in this role, are compelling.

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