Director of Agentic AI Engineering

Job overview

The Director of Agentic AI Engineering role is listed in New York, NY; the posting does not specify a work arrangement or numeric compensation. Recruits Lab connects specialized life-sciences and technology talent with organizations through relationship-driven recruiting. The director builds production AI systems that improve candidate discovery, matching, and search timelines. The role leads a small engineering team, owns the AI stack and evaluation practices, and partners with recruiters to connect technical work to measurable client and recruiter outcomes.

What you'll do

• Deliver a production matching engine
• automate sourcing maps, account verification, and pipeline hygiene
• establish model evaluation for precision, recall, bias, and recruiter overrides
• own data contracts, retrieval, ranking, inference, and production monitoring
• hire and lead an AI/ML engineering team
• partner with search consultants to encode territory and scientific expertise
• develop architecture that can scale to new verticals.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

director of agentic ai engineering

new york ny

recruits lab

ai engineering

machine learning

candidate matching

retrieval and ranking

llm orchestration

production ai

life sciences recruiting

engineering leadership

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Early-stage engineering ownership with a production-focused mandate and direct collaboration with recruiters and founding leadership.

About the employer

Recruits Lab is hiring for this role. Industry: Employment Placement Agencies. Sector: 56.