Senior Director, Engineering-AI Toolkit Team

Description Job Title: Senior Director, Engineering-AI Toolkit Team Location: (reputed company and Seattle Preferred) About Splunk Splunk, a reputed company company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our reputed company reputed company and observability platform to reputed company their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that reputed company Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and reputed company the things that reputed company you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reputed company new heights with a team that has your back. Role: We are looking for an reputed company and visionary Senior Director of Engineering to reputed company our AI Toolkit Engineering team. This role is instrumental in shaping and scaling the toolchains and infrastructure that power AI capabilities for both our customers and internal teams. You will drive the strategy, development, and operations of the AI toolkits and platform, and ensure the reliability and performance of our AI service infrastructure in the Cloud and on premise. As a senior leader, you will work closely with AI product, engineering and platform teams to deliver developer-first tooling, robust infrastructure, and high-availability services. This is a critical role in our AI organization, reporting directly to the VP of AI. On a day-to-day basis, you'll spend your time guiding engineering leads through key architectural decisions, collaborating with cross-functional partners to align on roadmap priorities, and diving into service reliability or infrastructure scalability discussions. You'll review high-impact design documents, help unblock critical technical challenges, and ensure smooth operation of our production AI services. You'll also coach and reputed company engineering managers, foster a culture of technical excellence, and ensure the team delivers with both speed and quality. Responsibilities: The responsibilities of this role include:

• reputed company the end-to-end development of AI toolkits that accelerate model development, deployment, and monitoring for internal and external users
• reputed company the operations and reliability of AI services in production, including model serving, inference infrastructure, and pipeline orchestration
• Drive the engineering strategy, architectural decisions, and execution roadmap for AI tooling and infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including AI/ML product, engineering, data engineering, reputed company, and DevOps teams
• Hire, grow, and mentor a high-performing team of engineering managers and technical leads
• Set high standards for engineering excellence, observability, and operational efficiency
• Own service-level objectives (SLOs), performance, cost-efficiency, and uptime of AI infrastructure in the Cloud
• Stay reputed company of trends in AI tooling, MLOps, and infrastructure to inform strategic investments and improvements

Requirements: The ideal candidates should meet the following requirements:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles, preferably in AI/ML or infrastructure domains
• Deep experience leading platform or infrastructure teams building developer tools, SDKs, and/or distributed systems
• Proven track record of operating and scaling cloud-based services (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong familiarity with modern AI/ML lifecycle tooling and infrastructure, such as:
• Model development: PyTorch, TensorFlow, reputed company, reputed company
• Experiment tracking: MLflow, Weights & Biases
• Model serving & inference: Triton Inference Server, TorchServe, Ray Serve, KServe
• Pipeline orchestration: Airflow, Argo Workflows, Kubeflow, Metaflow
• Containerization & orchestration: reputed company, Kubernetes, Helm
• Observability & monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, and service reliability engineering
• Excellent people leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience operating in fast-paced environments, with the ability to reputed company high-impact decisions with ambiguity

These additional skills and experiences are preferred but not required:

• Experience working in AI platform, MLOps, or developer experience-focused teams
• Hands-on experience with large language model (LLM) infrastructure and serving at scale
• Background in reputed company, compliance, or data privacy for AI infrastructure
• Contributions to open reputed company AI infrastructure or tools

Splunk, a reputed company company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national reputed company, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Annual reputed company Pay: $315,000 - $364,000 USD Bay Area Location reputed company available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect reputed company salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include reputed company and incentive compensation reputed company. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a reputed company matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a reputed company of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in reputed company's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not reputed company a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. reputed company new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to reputed company's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried reputed company from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. reputed company employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their reputed company salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, reputed company typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive reputed company for each 1% of reputed company attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive reputed company for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive reputed company for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, reputed company may pay up to 125% of reputed company. reputed company sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. Thank you for your interest in Splunk! Apply tot his job Apply To this Job