Director AI Platform Engineering

Our client is building a new AI Engineering & Platform team in Germany to support the next generation of AI-powered media, localization, automation, and workflow capabilities. The Director, AI Engineering & Platform will lead this team and will be responsible for building, operating, and evolving the technical foundation for production AI services across our client.This is a senior hands-on leadership role for someone who can build and run a high-performing engineering team, deliver complex AI platform and integration projects, and provide technical direction across cloud infrastructure, model deployment, AI services, agentic workflows, and production operations. The role will lead a hybrid engineering team based primarily in Germany while also managing and collaborating with engineers in other our client locations, including the United States.In addition to leading delivery and operations, this person will continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies, model providers, open-source frameworks, agentic workflow patterns, and industry capabilities. They will be expected to make clear recommendations on where our client should build, buy, partner, or integrate in order to improve speed, quality, cost, automation, and product differentiation.RESPONSIBILITIES:Build, lead, mentor, and develop a distributed AI engineering team across Germany and other our client locations. Experience recruiting, hiring, and standing up the full AI/ML engineering organization from scratch: applied ML engineers, MLOps/platform engineers, data engineers, integration engineers, etc.Lead development, hosting and ongoing improvement of our client’s cloud-native training and inference platform (compute, storage, orchestration, model serving, monitoring, cost management) for our client’s NLP technology for MT, ASR, and TTS in production.Own technical delivery for our client’s AI platform, model-serving, workflow automation, and applied AI engineering initiatives.Lead architecture,executio