Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads the ISSI platform engineering organization, owning strategy, execution, budgets, staffing, roadmaps, technical standards, and delivery across multiple teams. Manages engineering leaders, individual contributors, and offshore vendors while partnering with executives on priorities and outcomes. Oversees scalable, secure software delivery, architecture governance, hiring, performance management, process improvement, and adoption of emerging technologies including generative AI.

Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of Cognex’s Applied AI platform for industrial automation. Directs applied AI research, cloud and edge platform engineering, production reliability, security, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. Partners across product, hardware, UX, and R&D to ship customer-focused capabilities, drives platform adoption, and builds a high-performing engineering organization. Requires extensive software engineering and leadership experience, cloud and backend expertise, and familiarity with modern AI application architectures.

Provides technical leadership for a platform initiative by defining architecture, scalability, and long-term engineering strategy. Designs APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed services; leads complex initiatives; manages dependencies and cross-functional execution; improves reliability, observability, and operational efficiency; evaluates technical risks and emerging technologies; and influences product roadmaps and technical direction across teams.

Leads financial systems engineering for a service-contract business. Owns reconciliation systems, invoicing logic, financial data models, revenue recognition controls, and audit reporting. Manages SQL and dbt models, automated validations, exception resolution, merchant configuration audits, and cross-functional escalations across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Revenue teams. Leads individual contributors and develops the team as business needs evolve.

Leads the Enterprise Platform and Integrations engineering team, including people management, API strategy, partner integrations, technical roadmaps, and operational excellence. Establishes scalable API standards, reusable integration patterns, security and observability practices, and reliable delivery processes. Partners with Product, Operations, Security, Sales, and external partners to deliver complex integrations, improve platform reliability, and support AI-agent access to business capabilities.

Leads the hands-on development and scaling of Oasis’s healthcare software platform. Responsibilities include architecture, production coding, AWS infrastructure, DevSecOps, AI-native workflows, external system integrations, reliability, observability, compliance, roadmap execution, and recruiting a high-performing engineering team. The role begins primarily as an individual contributor and evolves into player-coach leadership while delivering patient- and provider-facing applications.

Leads the Data Products engineering pillar, owning clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, pipeline scalability, observability, and enterprise reporting foundations. Manages engineering teams and cross-functional delivery while advancing AI-assisted software development practices. The role requires building reliable, scalable data platforms for regulated healthcare environments, improving data quality and readiness, and translating technical strategy into business outcomes.

Leads the Insurance Product Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, managing engineering managers and 20–30 engineers. Owns technical vision, distributed systems architecture, delivery commitments, operational excellence, testing strategy, partner implementations, and cross-team interfaces. Develops engineering leaders, manages hiring and vendors, and drives adoption of AI-augmented development tools and practices. Ensures scalable, secure, reliable platform services while balancing contractual delivery dates with long-term platform maintainability.

Lead strategy, engineering, implementation, and operations of enterprise OT telemetry platforms. Ensure availability, security, scalability, and standardization of telemetry services; integrate OT data sources with enterprise and cloud platforms; build and mentor engineering teams; establish operational processes, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and lifecycle management; evaluate vendor technologies and maintain technical documentation.

Leads North American electrical engineering and design for data center development projects. Oversees strategic planning, technical standards, design documents, construction and commissioning support, QA/QC, vendors, budgets, schedules, and multi-project delivery. Manages and develops electrical engineering teams while collaborating with operations, sales, marketing, consultants, contractors, and executives. Requires extensive electrical design and construction expertise, data center experience, knowledge of power distribution and critical infrastructure systems, and 15–25% travel.

Leads the Manufacturing Engineering organization across advanced operations, sustaining engineering, process engineering, and technical field service. Drives manufacturing transformation, automation, robotics, DfX/DFM, product quality, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Builds and develops a high-performing engineering team, manages cross-functional collaboration with R&D, Quality, and Supply Chain, and oversees engineering systems, infrastructure, contractors, co-ops, and interns.

Leads Systems Engineering strategy and organization for next-generation Organ Care Systems. Owns system architecture, requirements, design translation, verification and validation across electrical, mechanical, and software subsystems. Manages internal and external design teams, budgets, planning, regulatory compliance, human factors, and cross-functional partnerships with Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Clinical teams. This hands-on leadership role also develops department capabilities and supports detailed technical execution for complex medical devices.

Lead the Data Products engineering pillar owning technical strategy, clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, and scalability. Manage ingestion pipelines, customer onboarding, data hygiene, observability, and enterprise reporting. Drive AI-augmented SDLC adoption, ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), hire and mentor engineering leaders, and partner with product and data science to deliver a stable, scalable clinical data platform that supports multi-customer growth and clinical insight generation.

Leads Re:Build’s Forward Deployed Engineering team, hiring and developing engineers who deliver full-stack digital solutions across manufacturing sites and functions. Partners with stakeholders to prioritize opportunities, guides technical delivery, establishes engineering standards, builds reusable delivery assets, measures solution impact, and promotes AI-assisted development tools. Requires strong software engineering, customer-facing delivery, people leadership, DevSecOps, Agile/SAFe, and cross-functional program management experience. The role includes approximately 25% domestic travel to customer sites.

Leads the Create Core platform engineering team, overseeing roadmap delivery, architecture, developer experience, accessibility, platform adoption, and technical quality. Manages 4–8 engineers, partners with Product and application teams, guides system design and code reviews, and develops a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and performance management. The role requires experience with cloud-first web platforms, AWS architecture, modern JavaScript technologies, Agile development, and cross-functional technical leadership.

Leads the software engineering organization supporting biotechnology research and CMC Development. Establishes engineering standards, operating models, portfolio practices, and talent development programs while overseeing full-stack applications, integrations, cloud architecture, reliability, security, and scalability. Partners with Product Management, Digital functions, and scientific stakeholders to translate complex research workflows into effective digital solutions. Requires extensive software engineering and leadership experience, including substantial biotechnology or biopharmaceutical experience.

Lead the electrical engineering team for designing and developing consumer products, oversee technical leadership in power electronics and embedded systems, and manage product development from concept to production.

Leads electrical and systems engineering for medical devices, including architecture, design, testing, verification, manufacturing support, regulatory compliance, field issue resolution, and product lifecycle activities. Manages senior and principal engineers, contractors, and interns while overseeing department goals, project planning, budgets, schedules, design documentation, contract manufacturers, and cross-functional collaboration. The position is onsite five days weekly and requires up to 10% domestic travel.

Lead technical strategy for a 50–150+ engineer organization, establish architecture and engineering standards, drive delivery, and partner with executives on technology investments. Embed production-grade generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and ML automation into engineering. Own AI platforms, distributed systems, cloud-native backend architecture, modernization initiatives, microservices migrations, and engineering transformation while ensuring scalable, reliable outcomes.

Leads enterprise product engineering and platform ownership, setting platform vision, architecture standards, roadmaps, governance, and success metrics. Oversees multiple onshore and offshore engineering teams, Agile delivery, release planning, quality and performance targets, technical debt, cost management, and continuous improvement. Partners with executives, architecture, cybersecurity, data, and adjacent platform teams while coaching engineering and product managers and managing the full product lifecycle.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, delivery practices, and vendor selection across Axios products, platforms, workflows, and internal systems. Develops engineering managers and senior technical leaders, strengthens planning and quality, aligns engineering capacity with business priorities, and partners with executive, product, design, newsroom, and business stakeholders. The role also drives AI adoption in software development and defines engineering standards, benchmarks, and operating practices.

Leads multiple product engineering squads, owning delivery, architecture, technical priorities, production quality, security, scalability, staffing, hiring, retention, performance management, and team health. Partners with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering work with business goals, resolve delivery blockers, improve processes and tooling, and manage major technical decisions. Requires hands-on experience with demanding architectures and the ability to work across React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB technology stacks.

Leads engineering strategy and performance across multiple manufacturing business units and substrates. Responsibilities include developing engineering leaders, prioritizing initiatives, improving uptime, throughput, yield, reliability, and manufacturing readiness, standardizing engineering practices, supporting capital projects, and resolving complex technical and operational issues. The role partners with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, EH&S, Supply Chain, Finance, and other stakeholders to drive enterprise manufacturing performance and capability.

Leads the software engineering organization responsible for scalable, reliable applications and systems integrating hardware, embedded software, edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. Sets technical strategy, develops engineering leaders, drives product delivery, establishes engineering standards, and ensures operational excellence across national-scale deployments. Partners with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and executive leadership to align roadmaps, resolve risks, and build high-performing distributed teams.

Leads the multidisciplinary Integrated Sensor engineering organization across hardware, embedded and edge software, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. Sets technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery processes while scaling reliable systems for nationwide field deployment. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, coordinating hardware and software development, improving testing and operational resilience, resolving field issues, and partnering with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership.