Top Remote Engineering Director Jobs

The Director will define AI strategies, lead development of AI agents, drive engineering enablement, and ensure solutions meet business objectives while aligning with enterprise standards.

Leads engineering operations, security, DevOps, quality engineering, cloud infrastructure, corporate IT, data integrations, and customer-facing technical escalations. Owns security strategy and compliance, incident management, on-call practices, reliability metrics, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production operations. Develops managers and senior engineers, restructures inherited teams, establishes service-level agreements, and drives automation and operational efficiency across the organization.

Leads engineering strategy and performance across multiple manufacturing business units and substrates. Responsibilities include developing engineering leaders, prioritizing initiatives, improving uptime, throughput, yield, reliability, and manufacturing readiness, standardizing engineering practices, supporting capital projects, and resolving complex technical and operational issues. The role partners with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, EH&S, Supply Chain, Finance, and other stakeholders to drive enterprise manufacturing performance and capability.

Leads Aquatech’s global Microelectronics Engineering organization and sets its technical strategy, standards, culture, and execution discipline. Provides senior technical leadership for semiconductor water and wastewater projects spanning UPW, WWT, reclaim, and ZLD. Establishes engineering standards, qualifies emerging technologies, improves quality and efficiency, develops KPIs, leads continuous improvement, and mentors engineering leaders. Requires extensive semiconductor utility infrastructure expertise and experience building multidisciplinary engineering organizations.

Leads WSB’s power delivery electrical engineering organization across substation engineering, protection and control, power systems studies, and DER. Oversees technical quality, standards, workforce planning, staff development, project delivery, budgets, client relationships, business development, and utility-facing initiatives. Provides senior technical direction on complex substation and power delivery projects while building scalable teams, QA/QC processes, and engineering operations.

The Global Head of Value Engineering partners with enterprise sales teams to quantify customer risk, ROI, and financial outcomes. Responsibilities include building business cases, ROI models, value calculators, and financial frameworks; presenting recommendations to CFOs and senior stakeholders; translating technical capabilities into commercial value; tracking post-sale value realization; and developing thought leadership. The role also helps establish Eftsure’s global Value Engineering function and processes.

Directs a global cloud networking sales engineering team supporting major customers across the Northwest region. Leads solution engineering, technical sales engagements, customer strategy, forecasting, product introductions, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations, services, and product teams. Develops cloud networking solutions spanning software, routing, edge, optical, and data center interconnect technologies. Presents strategy reviews to senior management and travels at least 25%, including occasional international travel.

Leads the software engineering organization responsible for scalable, reliable applications and systems integrating hardware, embedded software, edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. Sets technical strategy, develops engineering leaders, drives product delivery, establishes engineering standards, and ensures operational excellence across national-scale deployments. Partners with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and executive leadership to align roadmaps, resolve risks, and build high-performing distributed teams.

Leads the data engineering organization and enterprise Databricks Lakehouse on AWS. Owns team development, platform strategy, delivery, reliability, governance, budget, vendors, architecture standards, and regulatory compliance. Partners with executives on data transformation, MDM, ERP migration, analytics, and AI enablement. Requires extensive data engineering leadership, Databricks and AWS expertise, regulated-environment experience, and proven budget and vendor management.

Leads the architecture, development, and deployment of enterprise Generative AI and agentic systems for mortgage lending. Builds RAG pipelines, multimodal applications, cloud integrations, and LLMOps capabilities. Mentors engineers, guides technical strategy, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and collaborates with product, data, and UX teams to deliver scalable solutions. Requires strong software engineering or data science experience, expertise in LLM systems, cloud platforms, AI governance, model safety, and prompt engineering.

Leads engineering delivery and modernization roadmaps for retail front-store merchandising technology. Drives AI-enabled transformation, manages risks, dependencies, program plans, KPIs, reporting, stakeholder communication, and vendor relationships. Partners with business, product, architecture, PMO, and engineering teams to execute large-scale software programs and achieve business outcomes.

Lead and scale a Support Engineering function for Ashby across the Americas. Own vision, operating model, escalation/triage standards, reporting, tooling, and cross-functional feedback with Product and Engineering. Manage a Support Engineering Manager, drive hiring and career paths, and use data to reduce recurring technical friction while balancing immediate customer resolution with durable product improvements.

Lead and grow Proof’s IT Engineering team while transforming corporate IT from reactive help desk support into an engineering-first function. Own the strategy and roadmap for identity, access, endpoints, SaaS, vendors, procurement, and budgeting. Mentor engineers, implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, automation, and AI-driven operations, reduce ticket volume through root-cause fixes, and partner with InfoSec on security and compliance.

Lead cloud-based data engineering delivery for UHC HEDIS retrospective processing. Manage large teams of data engineers and SMEs, drive AI/GenAI adoption, ensure NCQA/compliance alignment, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, remove execution barriers, and evaluate emerging trends to inform scalable, quality-focused solutions.

As VP of Engineering, lead the engineering team, establish technical direction, and drive product delivery while ensuring high reliability and quality standards.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

Own the GoMining Platform’s technology strategy, architecture, roadmap, reliability, shared infrastructure, and engineering organization. Lead platform capabilities including authentication, authorization, integrations, analytics, user controls, and application infrastructure. Partner with product and executive leaders to align technical investments with business impact, while improving engineering velocity, resilience, and delivery. Hire and develop engineering leaders, establish operational excellence, and introduce AI-assisted workflows across engineering and operations.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

Leads Highland’s engineering and design function for EV charging, battery energy storage, and edge compute sites. Oversees engineering standards, design packages, QA/QC, utility interconnection, AHJ permitting, consultant management, project schedules, budgets, and construction readiness. Builds and scales internal teams and external engineering capacity while improving design velocity through standardized processes, automation, and tooling. Partners with development, construction, procurement, origination, and fleet operations on technical due diligence, feasibility, estimating, and risk.

Leads AHEAD’s Specialist Solutions Engineering team, overseeing daily management, strategic technical direction, coaching, career development, performance metrics, partner relationships, customer engagement, presales processes, quoting, and collaboration with sales and delivery leaders. The role presents solutions to customers and partners, supports sales plays, develops resource capacity processes, and maintains alignment across presales, delivery, and customer stakeholders.

Lead and grow a remote AI engineering organization, manage ~30 forward-deployed engineers, maintain technical standards for agentic full‑stack applications, review architectures, run performance management and hiring, support client engagements, and drive team enablement, evaluation harnesses, and MLOps practices.

Leads a team of senior Engineering Solution Architects supporting complex, cross-team initiatives. Oversees solution architecture, dependency mapping, technical estimation, sequencing, stakeholder alignment, risk resolution, and execution guidance. Establishes architecture standards, reusable patterns, and lightweight review processes while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Program Management leaders. Contributes to technology strategy and organizational decision-making as a member of the Technology Leadership Team.

Leads civil, site, and nuclear development engineering for advanced fission powerhouse sites from development through construction readiness. Oversees site layouts, geotechnical and infrastructure planning, basis-of-design packages, technical risk reviews, permitting and licensing inputs, consultant quality control, and EPC handoff. Builds and manages multidisciplinary engineering teams while coordinating reactor design, site constraints, project schedules, isotope facilities, and Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and delivery of FOS software products. Manages and scales engineering teams, drives modernization from legacy to modern technology stacks, oversees cloud, microservices, APIs, CI/CD, quality, security, and reliability practices, and collaborates with product and business stakeholders. The role also supports talent recruitment and development, compliance with SOC 2 requirements, disaster recovery planning, and continuous engineering improvement.

Leads operations for Penn Engineering’s Office of Academic Services, overseeing cross-functional projects, academic systems, data governance, reporting, events, partnerships, budgets, and operational workflows. Manages and develops the Operations team, drives technology adoption and service improvements, coordinates academic agreements and institutional events, and represents the office in university-wide initiatives. Supports strategic planning, compliance, procurement, and student success infrastructure.