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# Software Engineering Director, Multimodal AI Products

- **Company:** G2
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Backend, Fastapi, Build Management
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fb85955eaa229186

## About the Role

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 * 10+ years of professional programming experience in backend and application environments
 * 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers
 * Expert-level proficiency in Python or Typescript/Javascript; strong working knowledge of modern backend & web application frameworks like FastAPI, Node, React, or Rails
 * Direct experience applying multimodal (audio, image) AI in content production or generation workflows
 * Hands-on experience building AI and agent-powered features using frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and others beyond text generation use cases to include multimodal (image, audio) generation
 * Direct experience refining product requirements in collaboration with a product owner
 * Regular use of coding agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, or Pi as part of the daily software development workflow
 * BS/BA degree in related field, * Experience with dynamic video content generation fusing motion graphics and audio

## Description

* Contribute across the full software stack to deliver agent-driven user journeys to production, owning implementation quality from architecture to release
 * Design and build features driven by frontier models, with prompting, context, tools, and model reasoning to generate visual and audio experiences
 * Apply software engineering and system design principles to produce solutions that are observable, maintainable, scalable, and production ready
 * Validate solutions against functional requirements using evals and tracing to ensure content and experience quality is measured and monitored through metrics measured in CI and production
 * Help drive product definition: ideate, explore, and prototype with stakeholders, then cut down possible options to arrive at deliverable, but well-rounded solutions
 * Help conceive and ship features & MVP iterations early in the product definition phase that directly advance high-visibility organizational goals
 * Partner with product owners to identify what technology makes possible, and what makes implementing a given product or feature hard. Bring that perspective into project scoping and prioritization

Lead a group of engineers and be a source of wider influence [20%]

 * You will facilitate the growth and mentorship of a core team of engineers, and be a source of technical leadership and subject matter expertise on multimodal AI for them, * Direct experience building interactive realtime multimodal agents acting over long sessions & context windows


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