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About the Role

Lead the technical team that builds AI systems for humanitarian impact, shaping future AI applications in challenging global settings. This senior role focuses on designing and shipping AI-powered solutions, including agentic systems, predictive analytics, and AI diagnostics for low-resource environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI strategy and program priorities into a technical roadmap.
• Stay current with AI/ML advances and apply promising approaches to programs.
• Serve as a core member of IRC's AI leadership.
• Champion responsible, human-centered AI deployment with appropriate safety standards.
• Represent IRC in technical discussions with partners and the AI sector.
• Manage and develop a team of engineers, applied AI engineers, and QA specialists.
• Establish engineering quality standards, development practices, and documentation protocols.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog of program innovations and manage team capacity.
• Mature AI development and DevOps practices.
• Identify opportunities to secure budget resources for innovation.
• Act as a thought partner to program leaders, bringing AI fluency to their problems.
• Co-design solutions that work in the field.
• Partner with the Enterprise Applications team for smooth handoffs.
• Coordinate with the Enterprise Applications DevOps team on integration and infrastructure.
• Serve as the technical lead on strategic partnerships with AI organizations.
• Identify where partnership access can unlock program impact.
• Lead the design and development of AI-driven technology solutions.
• Interface with stakeholders to gather requirements and define technical solutions.
• Design and oversee high-availability architectures in Microsoft Azure.
• Research and recommend technology products and services.
• Oversee deployment pipelines, CI/CD automation, and QA processes.
• Ensure ongoing availability and performance of applications.
• Track and optimize cloud and model-inference costs.
• Maintain technical and policy documentation.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years in software engineering or technical product development.
• 3+ years leading engineers as a manager or tech lead.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping production AI systems (agentic frameworks, LLM applications, RAG systems, computer vision, or applied ML pipelines).
• Solid full-stack foundation (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks).
• Experience with cloud architecture (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP transferable), including AI services, DevOps pipelines, and cost-effective scaling.
• Working knowledge of data security and privacy practices for sensitive or personally identifiable information.
• A track record of building or growing strong engineering teams.
• Ability to engage non-technical leaders as a peer.
• Comfort operating across global teams, time zones, and diverse contexts.
• Genuinely motivated by humanitarian impact.
• Leads with humility and respect for those closest to the problem.
• Technically curious and forward-looking.
• Experience deploying AI in low-resource, low-bandwidth, or offline contexts (nice to have).
• Prior work with humanitarian, development, or global health organizations (nice to have).
• French or Arabic language skills (nice to have).

Skills

• AI Engineering
• Machine Learning
• Agentic Systems
• LLM Applications
• RAG Systems
• Computer Vision
• Applied ML Pipelines
• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Full-Stack Development
• Cloud Architecture
• Microsoft Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Data Security
• Data Privacy
• Team Leadership
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Technical Strategy
• Product Development
• Humanitarian Impact
• AI Governance
• Multimodal Models
• Edge/On-device Inference

Location

• Hybrid/Remote Available

Work Type

• Standard office work environment
• Hybrid
• Remote

Experience Level

• 7-10+ years in software engineering or technical product development
• 3+ years leading engineers

Salary/Compensations

• US Pay Rate: 185,000-200,000 USD
• UK Pay Rate: 87,000-100,000 GBP

About the Company

• The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.
• Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.
• A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions.
• The IRC is already one of the most ambitious AI-deploying humanitarian organizations in the world.
• We are working on dozens of AI initiatives across 30+ countries.
• We have strategic partnerships with AI partners and a portfolio of programs ready to scale.

Equal Opportunity

• IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.