<div><div><div><div id="message-list"><div id="message-list"><div><div><div><div id="message-list_1782755797.922809"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><h3>Director of Engineering</h3><div><br>Location: This position can be remote and requires travel </div><h3>Company Overview</h3><div><br>Robots &amp; Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations and deliver measurable results for our clients. We're all in on AWS, combining deep UX capability with senior engineering talent to get AI into production fast and keep it there.<br>We’ve earned the trust of leaders across Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing and more, and earned a reputation as the nimble alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Founded in 2009, with delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design. Our teams average 15+ years of experience. We move fast, sweat the details, and build things that actually ship.</div><div><strong>Position Overview</strong><br>The Director of Engineering is a senior leadership role at Robots &amp; Pencils, responsible for the technical health, delivery performance, and talent growth of a geographically aligned engineering organization. This is a director-level position with regional P&amp;L accountability, client-facing responsibility, and direct influence over how R&amp;P delivers AI-forward engineering at scale.<br><br>We’re looking for someone who has been an engineer — who has shipped real software and led real projects — and who has evolved into a leader that builds teams, develops talent, and drives outcomes. You bring a consulting mindset, a bias for action, and the kind of deep AI and agentic development expertise that can change how a client operates. You don’t just stay current on AI tools; you teach others how to use them, set the standard, and demonstrate what great looks like every day.<br><br>This role requires 10+ years of overall engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an Engineering Manager or Director capacity leading multi-person technical teams.</div><div><strong>Why This Role Matters</strong><br>At Robots &amp; Pencils, we design AI systems for a human world. Our name says it all. Robots and pencils means engineering paired with creativity, because every agent we ship has to work for real people in real workflows. That balance is baked into how we operate.<br><br>Every role here contributes directly to that mission. Here, you shape how AI systems integrate into enterprise operations, how teams move at real velocity, and how products create measurable impact for clients and the people they serve. We ship production-ready AI in 30 to 45 days. That pace demands people who take ownership, lead with craft, and care deeply about what they