Director - Harness Engineering

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related discipline, or relevant commercial experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing.

Strong software engineering background with experience in large, complex codebases, and genuine care for architecture, testing, and maintainability - you remain hands-on.

Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, or similar) and a well-developed feel for where they succeed and fail.

Experience building engineering tooling across a modern stack - linters and static analysis, CI/CD pipelines, containerized build/test environments, and instrumentation/observability - plus familiarity with agent instruction conventions such as AGENTS.md.

Experience with spec-driven development, context engineering, agent orchestration, fitness functions, and developer-platform work.

A systems mindset - you'd rather fix the environment than fix one output - and the ability to encode "what good looks like" into mechanical, repeatable rules.

Judgement about when to reach for deterministic, computational controls (type checkers, linters, structural/architecture-fitness tests) versus inferential, LLM-based ones (AI code review, LLM-as-judge) - and an understanding of the cost, speed, and reliability trade-offs between them.

Demonstrated experience owning AI governance and cross-organisational quality standards, including establishing LLM testing infrastructure and quality gating for AI-generated artifacts.

Working knowledge of the security surface unique to autonomous agents - prompt injection, tool/permission scoping, sandboxed execution, and audit trails for agent actions - and how to design least-privilege guardrails around them.

Strong experience managing geographically distributed, high-performing engineering teams, including navigating the organisational change that AI adoption brings.

Excellent communication skills to articulate design, strategy, and standards across teams.

An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.

An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

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At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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