Associate Director, AI Engineering

Job overview

The Associate Director, AI Engineering role is onsite in Waltham, MA. Compensation is not specified. The role supports CSL Behring's R&D scientists by turning working software prototypes into robust, tested, supportable systems. This hands-on engineering role establishes production standards and owns architecture, development, deployment, and readiness for the team's applications. It helps scientists move prototypes into reliable, secure, maintainable, and validation-ready products while coordinating with platform, quality, cybersecurity, and research partners.

What you'll do

• Own engineering standards and production readiness
• select and maintain supported languages, frameworks, and versions
• make architecture, release, and incident-response decisions within governance
• productize prototypes with architecture, tests, observability, security, documentation, and operability
• assess whether prototypes should be retained, rebuilt, or retired
• build reusable application-to-platform integration patterns
• establish CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, environments, templates, monitoring, and runbooks
• own code-review standards and merge gates
• design and build cloud-native full-stack systems
• partner with Quality and validation colleagues on risk-based engineering and validation practices
• work with R&D scientists on requirements, code review, and engineering capability
• support platform acceptance, cybersecurity, quality, and IT compliance
• own production support and incident follow-up
• present readiness and risk assessments to senior leadership.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

associate director

ai engineering

csl behring

waltham ma

onsite

r&d software

full-stack engineering

production readiness

agentic development tools

cloud-native systems

ci/cd

validated systems

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Benefits information is available through CSL's candidate benefits resource
• specific benefits are not detailed in the posting.

Why this role

Hands-on individual-contributor role requiring 10+ years building and operating production software, regulated/validated-environment experience, and sustained daily use of agentic development tools. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred.

About the employer

CSL Behring is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology). Sector: 54.