Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The role involves leading a Supplier Development Engineering team, developing supplier strategies, managing supplier performance, and ensuring quality compliance in manufacturing processes.

Lead Supplier Development Engineering team, set supplier development strategy and metrics, manage supplier performance and risk, and ensure compliance and quality processes.

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 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.

Leads broadcast engineering strategy, operations, modernization, reliability, and infrastructure supporting live production, studios, transmission, post-production, digital media, and multi-platform delivery. Manages engineering teams and vendors, oversees IP and cloud transformations, directs capital projects and budgets, and ensures resilient 24/7 operations. Provides technical leadership during live events and incidents while establishing standards, roadmaps, documentation, security, disaster recovery, and cross-functional alignment.

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.

The Director of Engineering will lead platform engineering strategy and teams, enhancing developer experience, driving AI integration, and establishing governance for development practices.

Leads software engineering strategy, roadmap, architecture, delivery, quality, security, and engineering team growth. Oversees cloud-native platforms, microservices, DevOps, RPA, workflow automation, data engineering, analytics enablement, budgets, hiring, compliance, and stakeholder collaboration. Requires extensive software engineering leadership experience in financial services, with responsibility for scalable customer-facing products and secure banking systems.

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.

Lead the Rainmaker Ad Server engineering domain, owning strategy, architecture, and delivery for low-latency, high-throughput ad decisioning and serving systems. Drive cross-functional partnerships, technical roadmap, reliability, incident response, team development, and platform modernization to optimize monetization and operational excellence.

Lead and develop motor engineering team, drive motor technology strategy, oversee end-to-end motor development, collaborate with suppliers and engineering teams, ensure optimal performances and manufacturability of motor systems.

Leads the creation of Stellarus’s performance engineering and test automation function. Owns automated performance, load, stress, scalability, reliability, regression, and end-to-end testing systems, CI/CD quality gates, performance standards, synthetic workloads, observability-driven analysis, dashboards, and release readiness criteria. Partners with developers and platform engineering across cloud-native services, Kubernetes, APIs, databases, and event-driven systems. Mentors technical teams, leads readiness reviews, and builds a high-leverage team while remaining hands-on with tooling and strategy.

Leads Disney Experiences Technology’s AI augmentation strategy, roadmap, operating model, adoption, culture change, and value measurement. Oversees multiple technical development teams, manages portfolio dependencies and investment priorities, and partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, and operations. Re-engineers software development workflows using AI while maintaining direct delivery accountability for web and mobile platforms, engineering standards, development processes, and quality practices.

Leads mechanical engineering for spacecraft platforms, owning mechanical design, integration, verification, structural configuration, payload integration, thermal control, mechanisms, and propulsion build efforts. Manages engineering staff, approves design artifacts and analyses, oversees hardware development and testing, manages interfaces and technical risks, supports procurement and vendors, and contributes to design reviews, environmental testing, spacecraft integration, and mission operations.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

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.

Lead engineering strategy, architecture, AI-native product development, execution, hiring, and organizational growth. Partner with the CEO, leadership, and Product to build technical roadmaps, establish AI-assisted development and evaluation practices, improve infrastructure and engineering quality, and maintain delivery accountability. This hands-on leadership role requires coding credibility, product collaboration, talent development, cross-functional communication, and ownership of engineering metrics, culture, and technical direction.

Lead senior engineering teams responsible for ZoomInfo’s operational and analytical data platforms. Set strategy, architecture, and roadmaps for Bigtable, BigQuery, ingestion pipelines, CDC systems, reliability, scalability, observability, and compliant customer data deletion. Manage technical leaders, develop engineering talent, prioritize competing initiatives, and partner with executives, product, legal, compliance, security, and downstream engineering teams to accelerate data onboarding and maintain platform integrity.

Leads capital engineering projects across manufacturing and supply chain facilities, from concept through commissioning and startup. Directs industrial automation, PLC/HMI/SCADA modernization, manufacturing systems integration, digital manufacturing, reliability improvements, and OT cybersecurity implementation. Partners with plant, IT, cybersecurity, maintenance, suppliers, and integrators to deliver secure, scalable solutions, improve operational performance, and maintain engineering standards across multiple locations.

Lead technical strategy and engineering execution for large-part machining and forming processes across California sites. Drive process innovation, tooling and machine programming, ERP and engineering data system improvements, mentor teams, manage program cost/schedule/technical goals, and support business development and cross-site standardization.

Lead and manage the Electrical Design Engineering team for 30+ facilities, deliver HV/MV/LV electrical designs for capital projects and operations, develop standards, lead FEED/FEL, manage external engineering partners, mentor SMEs, and drive reliability, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead R&D for industrial process automation products (sensors, electronics, controls, embedded software, mechanics). Drive product strategy, IP and roadmap, manage global engineering teams and external partners, establish engineering processes and metrics, and ensure product development from requirements through launch and sustaining.

Leads the vision, roadmap, and development of an AI-enabled Service Catalog platform. Combines product leadership with hands-on full-stack engineering across web applications, APIs, integrations, workflows, and AI features. Manages engineering and product strategy, defines success metrics, partners with architects and stakeholders, prototypes capabilities, and ensures scalable, secure, responsible solutions with human oversight.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and delivery of FOS software products. Manages and scales engineering teams, drives modernization from legacy to modern technology stacks, oversees cloud, microservices, APIs, CI/CD, quality, security, and reliability practices, and collaborates with product and business stakeholders. The role also supports talent recruitment and development, compliance with SOC 2 requirements, disaster recovery planning, and continuous engineering improvement.

Lead and scale Inspiren's embedded firmware organization: define technical roadmap, architectures, standards, and AI-augmented workflows; oversee multi-modal sensing firmware (mmWave, optical, audio), multi-protocol communications, SoC strategy, OTA and secure/HIPAA-compliant systems; manage JDM partnerships and cross-functional alignment across R&D, NPI, and sustaining engineering.