Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams; mentor engineers; collaborate with product managers; improve engineering practices; design, develop, test, deploy and support full‑stack and microservice solutions on AWS; ensure availability, resilience, and scalability; migrate monoliths to microservices and drive adoption of modern technologies and Agile practices.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead technology teams, define engineering strategy, mentor talent, and drive AI adoption for Morningstar's platforms.

The Director of Engineering will lead platform engineering strategy and teams, enhancing developer experience, driving AI integration, and establishing governance for development practices.

Lead the Pipeline team to own strategy and execution for MongoDB's end-to-end software delivery platform. Drive reliability, scalability, security, developer experience, CI/CD and release systems, telemetry, and organizational growth while partnering across engineering and product.

Lead the electrical engineering team for designing and developing consumer products, oversee technical leadership in power electronics and embedded systems, and manage product development from concept to production.

Lead and develop motor engineering team, drive motor technology strategy, oversee end-to-end motor development, collaborate with suppliers and engineering teams, ensure optimal performances and manufacturability of motor systems.

Lead engineering and architecture for Snowflake-based data platforms and ingestion services supporting audience and measurement. Define strategy, SLAs/SLOs, scalability, cost optimization, cloud-native modernization, CI/CD and IaC adoption. Oversee high-volume data onboarding, normalization, hygiene, and activation workflows. Build and manage a high-performing engineering organization and budgets, partnering with product, privacy, revenue science, and partnerships.

The Director of Retail Engineering will lead architecture and development of Toast's Retail Platform, ensuring resilience and data integrity, managing teams, and driving technical strategy to support Grocery and Convenience Store demands.

Lead enterprise application engineering delivery and operations across front-office, back-office, and employee platforms. Ensure stability, scalability, security, and alignment to business outcomes while driving simplification, automation, AI-enabled practices, lifecycle management, governance, and stakeholder value realization. Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

The Director of Embedded Systems Engineering will lead the firmware organization, oversee technical roadmaps, process architecture, and integrate AI tools while managing JDM partnerships and ensuring operational excellence.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure including SRE, global and HPC networking, and distributed storage. Define SLOs/SLAs, incident response, observability, and IaC. Architect InfiniBand/RoCE networks and high-performance storage to support large GPU workloads. Hire and mentor managers and senior ICs, partner with product and program teams to forecast capacity and drive reliability, throughput, and low-latency infrastructure at scale.

The Director of Solutions Engineering will lead pre-sales technical functions, oversee demos and POCs, build playbooks, and coach a team. This role requires strong technical expertise in AI and security while collaborating with various departments to improve sales efficiency and customer success.

Lead Zapier's Enterprise engineering organization responsible for identity, access, audit, admin tooling, and AI/agent governance. Define strategy and technical roadmap, ensure reliability of Tier-1 services, partner with Product, Sales, and Customer Success, shape AI-native engineering practices, build and develop managers and ICs, and oversee cross-org initiatives and incident leadership.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Lead and scale Forward Deployed Engineering and Technical Support teams, owning customer technical outcomes from pre-sales through deployment. Define engagement models, SLAs/SLOs, on-call/escalation structures, tooling, and feedback loops into Product and Engineering. Partner cross-functionally to prioritize roadmap, improve self-service, and drive operational discipline.

The Lead Director of Software Engineering will oversee the Health100 platform's development, drive innovation, lead cross-functional teams, and manage strategic engineering initiatives while ensuring high-quality delivery and stakeholder alignment.

Lead electrical power, safety, and industrial controls engineering across multiple manufacturing sites. Develop specifications, ensure code compliance, manage controls obsolescence, drive digital transformation, guide external integrators and contractors, coach engineering staff, resolve technical conflicts, and maintain corporate engineering standards while liaising with IT for plant-floor data architecture.

Provide strategic, operational, and technical leadership for Information Solutions, IT, and Mechanical Design within APS Engineering Support. Lead senior managers, set and execute multi-year digital and design modernization roadmaps (PLM, CAD, MBSE, digital thread), manage budgets and performance metrics, ensure safe compliant operations, and represent AES to stakeholders including DOE and lab leadership.

Define and operationalize company-wide engineering design standards for aerospace programs (VBAT, XBAT). Standardize CAD, drawing quality, design/analysis workflows, documentation, EBOM/MBOM handoffs, and configuration management. Partner with engineering leaders to scale engineering excellence, influence cross-discipline design decisions, and improve consistency without blocking execution.

The Director of Engineering leads an AI-first product engineering team, focusing on hiring, team development, compliance, and alignment with business goals. They collaborate with technical and product leaders while ensuring quality, operational reliability, and effective integration of AI solutions in a healthcare environment.

Lead design, development, and delivery of internal and resident-facing software. Build and mentor engineering teams, drive architecture and cloud-native practices, manage product partnerships and integrations, own delivery and KPIs, and improve engineering efficiency through CI/CD, automation, and incident response.

Lead Data & Integrations Engineering to enhance healthcare integration and data platforms. Manage delivery processes, team development, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnerships.

Lead and scale engineering teams building Protect, a real-time multi-signal fraud detection platform. Set technical strategy, develop managers and senior engineers, deliver distributed systems and APIs, improve architecture, observability, reliability, and developer productivity while partnering with Product, Research, Security, and exec stakeholders.

Lead Forward Deployed Engineering for strategic enterprise accounts: translate executive requirements into prototypes and production, own delivery and handoffs, grow and hire FDE teams, maintain enterprise security and data governance, partner across product, sales, and platform, and embed AI experimentation and governance into FDE workstreams.