We're looking for a Senior Director, AI Engineering
This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office Senior
Director, AI Engineering:
Experience: 15+ years in
software engineering, including 7+ years leading engineering leaders and teams,
and 4+ years delivering production AI/ML or Generative AI systems
Reports to: [VP / SVP, AI
Engineering]
Scope: 2–3 engineering
teams (~15–30 engineers) in Hyderabad, led through Engineering Managers and
Tech Leads, with a mandate to grow
Shift: General shift, with
regular evening overlap with US Eastern and Pacific time zones.
About Cornerstone OnDemand:
Cornerstone
OnDemand helps organizations of every size develop, engage, and retain their
people through a unified talent experience platform. Our software supports more
than 7,000 customers and tens of millions of learners worldwide. The India
engineering organization is a core part of Cornerstone’s global product
engineering, and our AI Engineering organization builds the Workforce AI capabilities and shared platform that power skills intelligence, content
intelligence, personalization,



and agentic experiences across Cornerstone’s
products.
About the role:
We are hiring a Senior Director, AI Engineering to
lead Cornerstone’s AI Engineering organization in Hyderabad. You will own the
people, the technical direction, and the delivery outcomes for multiple AI
engineering teams building the Workforce AI models, services, and platform that
make Cornerstone’s products intelligent — skills inference, recommendations,
content understanding, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, and the
agentic workflows layered on top.
This is a deeply technical leadership role. You
will lead through managers and tech leads, but you are expected to be credible
in the room: shaping AI architecture, pressure-testing retrieval and evaluation
strategy, questioning inference cost and latency trade-offs, and reading a
design document or a pull request with real judgment. You will not be writing
production fea

📌 Senior Director, AI Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 cyberu
📍 Hyderabad