Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads AWS-native application engineering initiatives across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and modernization. Sets technical direction, oversees multiple delivery workstreams, guides AI-enabled engineering practices, and develops scalable cloud solutions. Builds executive client relationships, shapes transformation roadmaps, supports business development, mentors engineering teams, and drives application performance, security, reliability, and cloud modernization across AWS and other major cloud platforms.

Leads embedded electrical and firmware engineering for connected beverage machines. Owns embedded architecture, technical roadmaps, new product development, production transition, field reliability, regulatory certification, component lifecycle, and manufacturing support. Manages and grows electrical and firmware teams while partnering with mechanical, software, systems, quality, manufacturing, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. Establishes engineering standards, testing, release processes, documentation, and responsible AI adoption.

Leads Deepgram’s GTM Engineering function, owning CRM, CPQ, forecasting, billing, data, integrations, automation, and internal tooling. Translates commercial needs into scalable systems and AI-powered workflows, establishes engineering standards, connects usage and revenue data, and partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data teams. This player-coach role designs, codes, tests, ships production systems, and develops a small team while prioritizing automation and operational leverage.

Leads WHOOP’s Firmware organization, setting technical strategy, scaling multiple embedded software teams, and developing engineering leaders. Owns reliable delivery across new products and sustaining work while improving architecture, testing, CI/CD, release practices, and quality. Guides firmware decisions for power, performance, accuracy, cost, and long-term platform health, partnering across hardware, algorithms, mobile, manufacturing, quality, product, and program management.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Leads approximately 35 engineers across data engineering, integration engineering, and integration support. Owns delivery predictability, manager development, operational reliability, SLA performance, data platform modernization, integration scalability, and organizational clarity. Partners with product, data science, commercial, and delivery teams while overseeing healthcare integrations with EHR systems, enterprise data infrastructure, incident management, and client-facing reliability commitments.

Leads engineering strategy and a distributed, multi-team organization delivering consumer websites and mobile apps across nine real estate brands and 120 countries. Owns platform strategy, reliability, performance, SEO, experimentation, AI initiatives, budgets, vendors, and organizational design. Partners with executive leaders across Product, Design, Marketing, and brand teams while hiring, developing, and succession-planning engineering managers and senior engineers.

Leads a 15–20-person multidisciplinary hardware engineering organization developing robotic picking systems and electromechanical products. Oversees product development from concept through validation, production, deployment, and sustaining support. Partners with software, product, program management, operations, and supply chain teams; manages customer requirements, design reviews, safety compliance, manufacturing scale-up, reliability improvements, risk mitigation, and predictable execution. Supports customer engagements and travel to domestic and international sites.

Leads advanced product development across multiple categories, owning early concept development, design storytelling, platform exploration, and innovation strategy. Partners with engineering, R&D, product development, and marketing leaders to create commercially viable, manufacturable products. Builds and manages a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, and managers while driving complex global initiatives, technical problem-solving, and scalable development processes.

Leads a global multidisciplinary engineering organization developing and commercializing semiconductor test platforms. Responsibilities include system architecture, technology roadmaps, AI-enabled engineering, stage-gate NPI, verification and validation, manufacturing readiness, customer engagement, and organizational leadership. The role oversees complex electromechanical product development, manages engineering managers and distributed teams, and partners with operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Leads Merlin’s feature systems engineering function, including architecture, requirements, interfaces, safety cases, verification, certification, and autonomous system behaviors. Establishes processes and standards, aligns hardware, software, safety, and flight controls, represents technical artifacts to customers and regulators, and oversees system-level testing through flight test. Builds and manages the systems engineering organization, hires and mentors leaders, and drives technical strategy for safety-critical autonomous aviation products.

Leads and mentors a platform engineering team while architecting, developing, and operating scalable cloud-native infrastructure and reusable microservice components. Oversees RESTful APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, security, and performance. Partners with engineering, product, and design teams on technical requirements and roadmap planning. Champions AI-assisted software development practices, including agentic coding tools and AI-augmented code review, while maintaining platform quality and reliability.

Leads platform engineering strategy, architecture, and enterprise modernization. Defines scalable shared frameworks, cloud-native capabilities, integration patterns, and technical standards across applications and infrastructure. Guides migrations to microservices, event-driven systems, and micro-frontends; mentors senior engineers; and drives DevOps, resilience, interoperability, reuse, and engineering excellence. Partners with executives, engineering, product, security, data, vendors, and technology stakeholders to translate business priorities into technical roadmaps and durable platform solutions.

Leads large-scale building operating systems and IoT engineering programs, including BMS connectivity, controls, security compliance, fault detection, predictive maintenance, and asset management. Serves as a trusted client advisor, oversees project delivery and reporting, presents technical solutions, and manages a team of engineering subject matter experts. Develops resource plans, succession strategies, and professional growth programs while supporting facilities, sustainability, business continuity, and lifecycle asset initiatives.

Leads electrical engineering execution for a WHOOP hardware product line across new product introduction and continuous improvement. Oversees the full product lifecycle from concept and requirements through design, validation, manufacturing ramp, sustaining, and failure analysis. Builds and develops the electrical engineering team, sets technical direction, manages risks, improves engineering processes, and partners cross-functionally with mechanical, firmware, systems, battery, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product teams.

Leads systems verification, validation, and test engineering for Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot. Responsibilities include building and managing a multidisciplinary team, developing risk-based verification strategies, leading DVP&R planning and execution, creating robust test methods and fixtures, ensuring requirements traceability, analyzing failures, supporting product characterization, and qualifying complex robotic systems for high-volume production.

Leads platform engineering strategy across Azure infrastructure, legacy Windows Server workloads, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, reliability, identity, security, cost optimization, and engineering tooling. Builds and develops a platform engineering team while overseeing tenant consolidation, modernization, observability, incident response, and developer self-service. Partners with Security and Compliance to support sensitive and regulated data environments.

Leads software engineering, business intelligence, AI solutions, and R&D functions. Translates organizational priorities into delivery plans, governs portfolios, manages budgets and resources, oversees quality and security practices, and supports internal and client-facing engagements. Develops leaders and technical teams, improves operational performance, monitors project health and profitability, partners with sales and stakeholders, and guides automation, data, software, and AI initiatives from delivery through operational support.

Leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization responsible for enterprise analytics platforms supporting healthcare applications, AI products, search, translation, and text summarization. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, code quality, platform modernization, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. Partners with Data Science, Product, Analytics, and Architecture teams while mentoring leaders and communicating technical strategy to stakeholders.

Leads the strategy, architecture, development, delivery, modernization, and support of enterprise quality engineering platforms, AI-enabled tools, developer enablement solutions, and shared services. Oversees multiple software engineering teams, cloud-native application development, platform reliability, CI/CD, AI integration, security, and operational excellence. Partners with product, architecture, security, DevOps, and business leaders while managing delivery, technical direction, resource allocation, talent development, and organizational growth.

Leads Lilly’s RNA Therapeutics Automation Engineering team, setting strategy and technical direction while developing automation experts. Oversees design, deployment, validation, and integration of laboratory automation across chemistry, biology, genomics, pharmacology, cell culture, and tissue workflows. Partners with scientists and AI/ML teams to improve reproducibility, scale data generation, integrate systems such as Benchling, and apply LLM-based and agentic tools. Coordinates multi-site delivery, standards, adoption, and pipeline-facing automation platforms.

Provides technical and people leadership for forensic investigations of damaged building structures and mechanical and electrical systems. Conducts site inspections, analyzes materials and environmental factors, interprets building codes, and prepares defensible technical reports. Reviews consultants’ work, manages project scope and budgets, coordinates clients and site visits, mentors engineers, and supports business development. The role is fully remote but requires field work and travel up to 50%.

Leads a 500-person systems engineering directorate covering concept development, trades analysis, architectures, requirements, integration, testing, validation, and verification. Establishes technical vision, organizational strategy, staffing plans, budgets, performance standards, and continuous improvement initiatives. Partners with engineering and program leadership, manages customer and contract relationships, develops business opportunities, and advances digital engineering and continuous integration practices. The role requires extensive engineering leadership, DoD program execution experience, government acquisition knowledge, and frequent travel.

Leads the platform development organization, including software engineering, architecture, platform modernization, cloud adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise solution delivery. Establishes development standards, SDLC readiness gates, CI/CD workflows, security practices, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees architects, managers, and software engineers while managing resources, risks, and escalations. Requires extensive Microsoft technology, Azure, software architecture, regulated-environment validation, and people leadership experience.

Leads enterprise stability and resilience engineering teams and capabilities. Builds software engineering standards, automation, governance, and reusable controls that improve reliability, recoverability, security, scalability, performance, and customer outcomes. Maps customer journeys and technology dependencies, drives resilience-by-design across the engineering lifecycle, establishes reliability and performance practices, and influences executive leaders on multi-year modernization strategies.