Head of AI & Program Technology Engineering at International Rescue Committee

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• Translate IRC’s AI strategy and program priorities into a prioritized technical roadmap, in close partnership with program leaders, the SVP for Research, Innovation, AI, and People & Culture, and the T4P demand pipeline. • Stay at the edge of AI/ML advances — particularly in agentic systems, multimodal models, and edge/on-device inference — and bring promising approaches to IRC’s programs. • Serve as a core member of IRC’s AI leadership, helping shape organizational direction alongside the SVP for Research, Innovation, AI, and People & Culture and other senior leaders. • Champion responsible, human-centered AI deployment in some of the most sensitive humanitarian contexts in the world, with the safety standards those contexts demand. • Represent IRC in technical discussions with partners, peer organizations, donors, and the broader humanitarian and AI sectors. • Manage and develop a team of engineers, applied AI engineers, and QA specialists. Hire well, raise the bar, and build a culture that strong technical people want to be part of. • Establish engineering quality standards, development practices, and documentation protocols. • Maintain a prioritized backlog of program innovations and manage team capacity against demand. • Mature the team’s AI development and DevOps practices and grow stakeholder buy-in across the organization. • Identify opportunities to secure budget resources in support of innovation priorities. • Act as a genuine thought partner to program leaders — bringing AI fluency to their problems and humility about the field realities • Co-design solutions that actually work in the field, not technology-first answers in search of problems. • Partner with the Enterprise Applications team to ensure smooth handoffs of proven innovations for enterprise-wide scale-up. • Coordinate with the Enterprise Applications DevOps team on integration touchpoints, infrastructure dependencies, and shared engineering standards. • Strong candidates will bring most — not necessarily all — of the following: