Director/Senior Manager - AI Harness Engineering

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director/Senior Manager - AI Harness Engineering based in the United States.

As a Director/Senior Manager of AI Harness Engineering, you will establish and lead a new engineering discipline focused on making AI coding agents reliable at enterprise scale.
You will design the systems, controls, feedback loops, and shared context that help autonomous agents consistently produce production-grade software.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will contribute code while setting technical direction, quality standards, and governance practices.
You will lead a geographically distributed team and collaborate closely with engineering, product, security, and platform stakeholders.
Your work will help shift software quality from manual review toward enforceable, observable, and repeatable engineering systems.
You will shape how AI-assisted development is governed, measured, secured, and adopted across complex engineering organizations.
This is an opportunity to define an emerging discipline while directly influencing the future of software engineering and AI-enabled development.