Director, Agentic Lab

About the role

The Director, Agentic Lab reports to the Executive Director, Agentic Architecture & Lab and leads the design, prototyping and validation of next-generation AI agents and autonomous workflows. The role evaluates emerging AI technologies, builds reusable reference implementations and works with engineering teams to turn successful innovations into enterprise-scale capabilities. It is a remote position open anywhere in the U.S., with about 10% travel and no relocation provided.

Key responsibilities

• Lead rapid prototyping and technical validation of agentic AI solutions and autonomous workflows.
• Evaluate foundation models, agent frameworks, orchestration technologies and developer tooling.
• Develop reusable proof-of-concepts, accelerators and reference implementations for the Agentic Factory.
• Partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product and Architecture teams to productionize successful prototypes.
• Define best practices for prompt engineering, reasoning strategies, memory architectures, evaluation and observability.
• Contribute to enterprise standards, documentation and reusable engineering patterns for AI agents.
• Mentor AI engineers and foster a culture of experimentation and continuous learning.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience building AI, machine learning or software engineering solutions, including technical leadership.
• Strong software engineering background with production-grade AI applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across research, engineering and business teams.

Required skills

• LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, vector databases, APIs and cloud-native development.
• Python.

Desirable: experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare or other regulated industries, and experience building enterprise agentic AI platforms and developer ecosystems.

What we offer

• Expected salary of $194,600 to $361,400 per year, with a performance-based cash incentive and possible annual equity awards.
• Health, life and disability benefits, 401(k) with company contribution and match.
• Vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.