Director of AI Engineering

Location

Remote - United States only.

About the role

Ottimate is building the AI-native future of accounts payable. Our platform processes millions of invoices across hundreds of enterprise customers, powered by a suite of ML models and agentic workflows.

As Director of AI Engineering, you will own the full AI and ML layer of our product — from invoice understanding and vendor intelligence to our conversational AP Copilot and the next generation of autonomous AP agents.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You will spend at least half your time writing code, architecting systems, and driving technical decisions alongside your team. You will also set the AI roadmap, partner cross‑functionally with Product, Data, and Platform Engineering, and manage a distributed team of 8–10 engineers across Data and ML.

We are looking for a senior technical manager or director — ideally someone who has thrived at a smaller company and is ready for a ca...