Hybrid Executive Director, AI Software Engineering – Principal

at Labcorp

• Job title: Executive Director, AI Software Engineering – Principal
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $200,000 - $250,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Burlington, United States

About the role

• Executive Director responsible for defining AI engineering strategy and leading production-ready AI solutions at Labcorp. Overseeing distributed teams and ensuring alignment with healthcare goals.

Responsibilities

• Define the long‑term strategy and roadmap for applied AI and AI engineering capabilities supporting enterprise healthcare goals.
• Ensure alignment between AI engineering initiatives and organizational priorities, system requirements, and operational needs.
• Lead distributed engineering teams to deliver production‑grade AI systems with clear accountability and predictable execution.
• Oversee end‑to‑end development of AI systems including model lifecycle management, orchestration, deployment, and observability.
• Establish frameworks for AI evaluation, monitoring, safety, alignment, and incident response to ensure responsible and compliant AI operations.
• Define architectural direction for scalable AI platforms, distributed systems, and model‑serving infrastructure.
• Implement engineering best practices across Agile delivery, documentation, estimation, SRE, QA, and development workflows.
• Recruit, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and senior‑level individual contributors.
• Oversee vendor relationships, cloud usage, and external integrations to ensure optimization of cost, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10 or more years of leadership experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or applied AI roles.
• 5 or more years experience building and operating production AI systems including model development, MLOps, deployment pipelines, and observability.
• 5 or more years experience designing prompt architectures, system prompts, and multi‑component prompt flows.
• 5 or more years experience implementing agentic patterns for orchestration, planning, and autonomous workflows.
• 5 or more years experience defining and applying AI safety, evaluation, monitoring, and alignment frameworks in enterprise environments.
• 5 or more years experience leading distributed engineering teams across onshore and offshore models.
• 5 or more years experience designing distributed systems and AI platform architecture for scalable, reliable services.
• 5 or more years experience working with security, compliance, or regulatory frameworks relevant to AI and data environments.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan