Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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 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.

Leads a 60-person engineering organization, managing seven engineering managers and owning delivery, staffing, organizational health, manager development, operating strategy, technical roadmap, and AI adoption. Establishes engineering KPIs using Linear, DORA, and reliability metrics; improves delivery predictability and system reliability; guides architecture and capacity allocation; and ships production AI or agentic initiatives with standards for security, cost, observability, and reliability.

Leads engineering standards, architecture governance, platform strategy, technical quality, security and compliance engineering, and production AI governance across CSL Plasma’s digital products. Manages cross-domain technical teams, sets cloud and integration direction, owns shared engineering platforms and data architecture, and ensures reliable, scalable, regulated software delivery. The role also drives AI-assisted development, production AI operations, engineering metrics, talent development, and alignment with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Life360’s critical platforms, including location and messaging, cloud infrastructure, identity, and partner ecosystems. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and scalability, establish engineering metrics, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business outcomes while supporting secure, high-performing systems serving millions of users.

Leads and builds the electrical engineering organization developing high-reliability power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics for RF sensors and avionics. Oversees architecture, design, integration, qualification, production transition, field support, hiring, standards, resource allocation, and technical reviews. Provides hands-on leadership for complex hardware challenges involving FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF, thermal, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and testing.

Leads data engineering teams while designing and optimizing scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on cloud platforms. Responsibilities include developing PySpark and Spark workflows, orchestrating Airflow DAGs, managing cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD, improving data quality and performance, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates with clients, product, architecture, and program management teams, while applying generative AI and DevOps practices to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

Leads platform engineering across learner and enterprise products, setting architecture direction, integrating AI and data capabilities, managing engineering managers and teams, and improving quality, reliability, security, accessibility, and delivery. Partners with product, design, IT, cloud operations, sales, and executives on strategy, planning, budgets, and enterprise SaaS outcomes.

Leads enterprise software engineering, solution architecture, data and reporting strategy for business applications supporting Human Capital, Finance, Supply Chain, and workforce management. Establishes roadmaps, engineering standards, governance, architecture, quality practices, and secure reporting capabilities. Directs cross-functional delivery, prioritization, lifecycle improvements, stakeholder alignment, and organizational development while hiring and managing engineering leaders and teams.

Leads the global Engineering Standards & Safety function for mission-critical data centers. Establishes engineering standards, operating boundaries, asset-acceptance criteria, safety requirements, control and alarm philosophies, and technical risk-acceptance governance. Oversees multidisciplinary engineering teams, validates technical methods, collaborates with regional operations and construction stakeholders, monitors standards adoption, and escalates systemic risks. The role also manages resources, budgets, workforce planning, senior stakeholder communication, and global technical governance across electrical, mechanical, controls, fire, and life-safety disciplines.

Lead Attentive’s cloud platform organization, overseeing AWS infrastructure, Snowflake and centralized data platforms, database infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud cost optimization. Set technical strategy, improve reliability and operational standards, lead migrations, build self-service developer workflows, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Developer Experience to improve infrastructure efficiency, scalability, security, and delivery speed.

Leads a hands-on software engineering organization developing AI-enabled legal automation platforms. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, reviewing architecture and code, owning delivery and platform reliability, managing distributed teams, translating legal workflow requirements into scalable systems, and partnering with product, legal operations, executives, vendors, and clients. The role requires oversight of multi-tenant security, AI capabilities, Agile delivery, hiring, mentoring, and engineering quality.

Lead the Fan Experience engineering team building consumer-facing ticket discovery and purchasing features across web and mobile. This hands-on role involves coding, mentoring, hiring, owning the engineering roadmap, improving velocity through AI tools and internal platforms, partnering with Product and Design, managing technical risks and debt, and delivering measurable marketplace outcomes. The manager will guide full-stack architecture, experimentation, quality, and cross-team technical initiatives.

Leads and scales the Systems Engineering organization, establishing architecture, requirements, integration, verification, validation, modeling, analysis, testing, and lifecycle processes. Serves as senior system-level technical authority for complex HPM systems, drives cross-functional technical decisions, manages risks and technical baselines, develops engineering talent, and aligns hardware, software, manufacturing, test, program management, customers, and stakeholders around product objectives and milestones.

Leads solution engineering and customer support operations for a digital health data platform. Responsibilities include building distributed engineering and support teams, leading technical pre-sales, designing customer data solutions, managing architecture and handoffs, owning post-launch support and incident resolution, establishing SLAs and operational metrics, overseeing vendors and budgets, and partnering with Product and Platform Engineering to improve reliability and reduce support demand.

Leads the Platform Services organization, managing teams that build internal developer tooling, shared engineering services, golden-path templates, development environments, and AI-assisted development capabilities. Owns platform strategy, service reliability, security, adoption, productivity measurement, and consolidation of duplicated services. Partners with infrastructure and delivery teams, manages budgets and roadmaps, recruits and develops engineering leaders, and drives organizational change and engineering excellence.

Leads software development, QA, and DevOps for a digital insurance platform. Owns engineering roadmaps, delivery governance, architecture, code quality, security, testing, release reliability, and operational improvement. Manages and develops a small engineering team, partners with product and business stakeholders, evaluates technical risks, and guides responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on technical judgment across modern application architecture, Azure cloud services, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and secure software delivery.

Leads RF hardware engineering across space radio programs, owning technical direction, delivery, design quality, verification, hiring, team development, and process scalability. Participates in architecture reviews, schematic reviews, failure investigations, and cross-functional work with FPGA/DSP, software, mechanical, manufacturing, test, and supply chain teams. Represents RF engineering with customers, government programs, primes, and partners.

Leads and builds VulcanForms’ Applications Engineering function, connecting customer requirements to manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities include hiring and developing the team, establishing feasibility and requirements processes, qualifying opportunities, overseeing design concepts, documenting technical constraints, supporting proposals and strategic pursuits, and translating customer needs for product development and manufacturing teams. The role requires extensive additive manufacturing expertise, technical sales leadership, customer relationship skills, and experience with manufacturing costs and pricing.

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

Leads enterprise cloud and application architecture, designing scalable cross-functional systems, platforms, integrations, and technology roadmaps. Provides hands-on solution design, code review, technical mentorship, and leadership across development and IT teams. Ensures alignment with enterprise standards, security, business strategy, healthcare interoperability, and HL7 requirements. Evaluates project risks, testing, monitoring, and implementation while collaborating with system owners and external partners. Requires extensive architecture experience plus healthcare, payer data, X12, and EMR expertise.

Leads multiple software engineering teams supporting claims and other technology areas. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring staff, budgeting, roadmap planning, architecture, hands-on delivery, security and compliance, performance optimization, modernization, CI/CD, technical strategy, and executive communication. The role requires driving scalable distributed systems, cloud transformation, operational excellence, and adoption of engineering best practices.

Leads a 40-person distributed systems engineering organization responsible for Elasticsearch scalability, performance, resilience, architecture, and Serverless capabilities. Develops long-term strategy, oversees complex cross-team initiatives, manages engineering managers and senior technical leaders, drives hiring and organizational planning, resolves critical operational issues, and communicates priorities to executives. Requires deep distributed systems expertise, large-scale software engineering experience, strong operational judgment, and proven organizational leadership.

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