Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform at Attentive · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Attentive sends billions of messages each year for more than 8,000 brands, helping drive tens of billions of dollars in revenue for our customers. Behind every message is a series of decisions: who should receive it, what it should say, when it should send, which offer to include, and which channel to use.
We’re building the next generation of that decision-making system: an autonomous marketing agent designed to transform how brands plan, execute, and optimize their marketing. Marketers will set the goals and boundaries, while the platform develops strategies, takes action, measures results, and continuously improves over time.
This is an opportunity to help evolve Attentive from a platform that powers messages into one that coordinates and continuously improves a brand’s broader marketing program.
What You’ll Accomplish
3+ years managing engineers, 8+ years engineering
Has seen and helped build engineering excellence at a top-tier organization. Sets an ambitious bar for talent and execution, knows how to hire and lead an A+ team, and brings strong technical opinions with the curiosity to challenge their own assumptions.
Has worked on building large-scale reinforcement learning systems (not the ML, but the data, infra, and serving platforms beneath it); examples of where you might find these engineers are from frontier labs, AI-native companies using RL for fine-tuning, AI labeling companies (Handshake, Mercor, ScaleAI), or other tech companies that have built web-scale production-grade reinforcement learning system
Understands the interface between product engineering, ML, and data science, and is fluent enough to be a real partner. Understands what a model needs from the platform, without needing to own the model.
Has shipped agentic or LLM-backed systems and knows the production tradeoffs of tool use, orchestration, and retrieval
Strong on distributed, data-heavy systems: streaming, event-driven, cost-aware inference
Tracks the field closely, has a real view on what shipped last quarter and why it matters, and has killed their own work when something better arrived
Still writes code. Hires well, gives direct feedback, holds a high performance bar, and builds accountability without drama.

Director of Engineering, Marketing Agent Platform

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Attentive

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