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Director of Engineering, Platform

AiDash

AiDash

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Gurugram, Haryana, India
Posted on Jan 15, 2026

About AiDASH

AiDASH is an enterprise AI company and the leading provider of vegetation risk intelligence for electric utilities. Powered by proprietary VegetationAI™ technology, AiDASH delivers a unified remote grid inspection and monitoring platform that uses a SatelliteFirst approach to identify and address vegetation and other threats to the grid. With a prevention-first strategy to mitigate wildfire risk and minimize storm impacts, AiDASH helps more than 140 utilities reduce costs, improve reliability, and lower liability across their networks. AiDASH exists to safeguard critical utility infrastructure and secure the future of humanAIty™. Learn more at www.aidash.com.

We are a Series C growth company backed by leading investors, including Shell Ventures, National Grid Partners, G2 Venture Partners, Duke Energy, Edison International, Lightrock, Marubeni, among others. We have been recognized by Forbes two years in a row as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.” We are also proud to be one of the few software companies in Time Magazine’s “America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2024”. Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ recently ranked us at No. 12 among San Francisco Bay Area companies, and No. 59 overall in their selection of the top 500 for 2024.

Join us in Securing Tomorrow!

The Role

As the Director of Engineering for Platform, you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the core systems that power AiDASH’s AI-driven products. You’ll oversee teams responsible for building scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that enable our product and data engineering organizations to innovate faster and deliver value at scale.

You’ll play a critical leadership role in shaping our cloud architecture, data infrastructure, developer productivity frameworks, and overall engineering excellence. This is a highly strategic and technical role for a leader who thrives on enabling others to build world-class systems.

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Cultivate an environment of ownership, innovation, challenge the status quo and open up the boundaries in every aspect of development

  • Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, complex applications and services, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and performance

  • Lead the successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects, ensuring high quality, technical integrity, and timely delivery

  • Provide expert guidance and hands-on mentorship on complex technical challenges

  • Develop and implement strategies for talent acquisition, retention, and professional growth within engineering

  • Cultivate strong relationships with partners such as Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success

What we’re looking for:

  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in engineering management with direct experience leading managers and senior ICs across distributed teams.

  • Proven success delivering scalable enterprise grade cloud-based platforms (AWS or similar).

  • Strong foundation in **data platforms, pipelines, and distributed systems**, with experience in technologies such as Python, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, and modern API design.

  • Experience with **ETL and batch processing of large datasets**; exposure to image data or similar unstructured datasets a plus.

  • Strong understanding of AI and ML workflows for both training and inference.

  • Experience collaborating across matrixed organizations to influence and deliver on business goals.

  • Demonstrated ability to recruit, retain, and mentor diverse technical talent and build inclusive teams.

  • Executive-level communication and influence, with a track record of **partnering with product and business leaders** to set and deliver on strategy.

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices, and we promote a work environment where everyone, from any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, can do their best work.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible interview experience for all candidates. Please let us know if you require any accommodation during the interview process, and we will make every effort to meet your needs.

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