Director, Software Engineering (P4474) at 84.51°
Cincinnati, OH
$162,000–$262,000
Jul 1, 2026
Cincinnati, OH
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering leadership role focused on building and maintaining the agentic infrastructure underpinning a large retail enterprise — covering registries, monitoring tools, and low-code/no-code agent platforms. The position involves managing multiple layers of engineering teams (including offshore), driving technical design across cloud-based AI/ML systems, and partnering closely with product management. Suits an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in production AI/ML and agentic systems.
Senior level · 7+ years · Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 6–35
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $173,258 (middle half $136,231–$215,620).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
84.51° is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH (Kroger's data science subsidiary); no explicit location or remote policy is stated in the posting, so Cincinnati CBSA is used as the best-fit location.
The title is 'Director, Software Engineering', which maps most naturally to 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) given explicit people-management duties: leading and managing a team of engineers, managing hiring, managing offshore reliability engineering teams, and managing direct reports. However, the role also demands deep hands-on technical expertise (agentic systems, AI/ML, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python), making 15-1252 a genuine runner-up.
Advertised as 'Director' — mapped to Principal for the level advertised in the title as the closest band to a Director-level title. The actual scope (leading one team within a larger org, no org-wide authority described) supports Senior as the required band.
The AI/ML frameworks requirement lists PyTorch, OpenAI SDK, LangChain, and autogen as a group with no single one singled out; PyTorch is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree or higher' with no equivalent-experience substitution offered, so Bachelors is set as the minimum hard requirement.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud-based software architecture.
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