AI Engineering Sr Director
Blend360 · Columbia
$200,000–$290,000from the description
Jul 18, 2026
Columbia
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A director-level role at an AI consulting firm, focused on designing and architecting generative AI and agentic systems for a range of enterprise clients. Day-to-day work spans hands-on technical leadership — including LLM selection, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent system design — alongside client advisory, presales support, and AI roadmapping. Suited to a senior technologist with a consulting background who is equally comfortable in deep technical work and executive-level client conversations.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 460 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 190–1,000
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 $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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)
The title 'Director, AI & Generative Solutions' carries a Director/Principal framing, but the actual requirements — even at 10+ years — describe a hands-on senior technical consultant/architect with no explicit org-wide authority or people-management scope; seniority is assessed as Senior.
The JD lists TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LangGraph, and Crew.ai together as a single proficiency requirement ('such as … or equivalent'). TensorFlow and PyTorch are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the same framework requirement; LangChain is the primary with LangGraph and Crew.ai as alternatives. Hugging Face Transformers is kept as a standalone named tool.
AWS SageMaker, Google Cloud AI Platform, and Azure ML are listed as interchangeable examples of cloud-based AI platforms — captured as one requirement with alternatives.
Diffusion models and GANs appear under 'Familiarity with … is a plus' — listed as preferred.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's … A Ph.D. is a significant plus' — no degree is hard-gated (equivalent experience is implicitly accepted given the consulting context and 'or' framing), so the degree requirement is set to None.
SOC is Medium confidence: the role blends AI/ML solution architecture (15-2051), technical consulting/systems analysis (15-1211), and senior engineering (15-1252). The dominant day-to-day work — designing and implementing GenAI/ML solutions — most closely maps to Data Scientists (15-2051); 15-1299 is the runner-up given the breadth of the role.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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