Director of Engineering

Lazer, Canada +1

What you will do

Co-own the AI engineering team of roughly 30 forward deployed engineers alongside existing engineering leaders.
Own the health and happiness of the team through regular 1:1s, catching disengagement, burnout, and bench frustration before they become resignations.
Run performance reviews against our FDE rubric, which weighs consulting skills as equally important as technical skills.
Level up the team as Forward Deployed Engineers through training sessions, playbooks, checklists, pairing, and internal writeups.
Define and maintain the baseline AI competency every engineer on the team is held to, and keep it current as tooling changes.
Codify what our best engineers do instinctively into shared, documented practice, and distill field learnings back into reusable patterns.
Track engagement health across the portfolio, surfacing delivery risk, uncovered areas, and deteriorating client relationships early.
Review architectures and pressure-test approaches so they hold up to scrutiny from a client CTO or architecture review board.
Provide project and technical guidance on evaluation strategy, instrumentation, and how we prove impact.

Lazer, Canada +1

Co-own the AI engineering team of roughly 30 forward deployed engineers alongside existing engineering leaders.
Own the health and happiness of the team through regular 1:1s, catching disengagement, burnout, and bench frustration before they become resignations.
Run performance reviews against our FDE rubric, which weighs consulting skills as equally important as technical skills.
Level up the team as Forward Deployed Engineers through training sessions, playbooks, checklists, pairing, and internal writeups.
Define and maintain the baseline AI competency every engineer on the team is held to, and keep it current as tooling changes.
Codify what our best engineers do instinctively into shared, documented practice, and distill field learnings back into reusable patterns.
Track engagement health across the portfolio, surfacing delivery risk, uncovered areas, and deteriorating client relationships early.
Review architectures and pressure-test approaches so they hold up to scrutiny from a client CTO or architecture review board.
Provide project and technical guidance on evaluation strategy, instrumentation, and how we prove impact.