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Senior Director, Enterprise AI Platform Engineering - Hybrid (Acton, MA or San Diego, CA)

Insulet · Acton, MA

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Level
Director+
Team
Manufacturing
Base pay
$225k–$338k
Experience asked
5+ years
Industry
Medical devices
Posted
13 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A director-level manufacturing role at Insulet (medical devices) in Acton, MA. This role will have end-to-end accountability across AI platform engineering, AI operations, governance automation, enterprise AI architecture, enablement, FinOps, observability, and reusable AI services.

They ask for
5+ years
Tools it names
Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), Automation, Casting, Capacity planning
Base pay
$225k–$338k

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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026

Manufacturing Engineer roles in Massachusetts: typical posted base $100k–$145k. This one lists $225k–$338k.

Median of the low and high ends of 34 live postings that list pay, out of 69 manufacturing engineer openings in Massachusetts, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 68 other live manufacturing postings in Massachusetts.

Base pay
About 152% above similar roles

Typical $91k–$132k, from 27 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
Typical (5+ years)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • Tooling 51%
  • Lean 51%
  • ✓ Automation 46%
  • SolidWorks 36%
  • Root cause 35%
  • Six Sigma 35%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

Stands out: this posting asks for Casting, Capacity planning, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 5+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

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This plant: Insulet in Acton

3 other open roles at this site.

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Job Summary

Senior Director, Enterprise AI Platform Engineering

The Senior Director, Enterprise AI Platform Engineering will define and lead Insulet’s enterprise AI platform vision, strategy, and architecture, enabling the scalable adoption of Microsoft Copilot, custom copilots, AI agents, intelligent automation, and advanced AI-driven services across the organization. This leader will own end-to-end accountability for AI platform engineering, operations, governance, architecture, observability, and AI service delivery, driving enterprise standards, risk management, and technology modernization.

The ideal candidate is a strategic enterprise leader who can influence at the executive level while building and leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams that translate AI innovation into measurable business value.

Senior Director, Enterprise AI Platform Engineering

The Senior Director, Enterprise AI Platform Engineering will set the enterprise vision, strategy, architecture, and operating model for Insulet's AI platform ecosystem. This role will own the capabilities required to safely scale Microsoft Copilot, custom copilots, AI agents, knowledge retrieval, document intelligence, semantic intelligence, and AI-powered workflow automation across the enterprise.

As a senior leader within the Enterprise AI and Data organization, this role will have end-to-end accountability across AI platform engineering, AI operations, governance automation, enterprise AI architecture, enablement, FinOps, observability, and reusable AI services. The role will shape long-term platform investments, enterprise standards, risk controls, and technology modernization priorities.

The ideal candidate is an enterprise platform leader who can operate at CTO and ELT levels while building and leading a multi-layer, diverse organization of directors, senior managers, architects, engineers, product leaders, and technical specialists.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise AI Platform Strategy, Architecture, and Investment

  • ◆Define and own a 5+ year enterprise AI platform vision, architecture strategy, capability roadmap, operating model, and investment plan aligned with company strategy and technology modernization priorities.
  • ◆Set the enterprise roadmap across Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI, large language models, RAG, agents, document intelligence, semantic search, vector stores, orchestration frameworks, model gateways, and reusable AI services.
  • ◆Establish enterprise decision frameworks, reference architectures, platform patterns, reusable blueprints, and engineering standards that balance speed, security, compliance, interoperability, performance, reliability, and cost.
  • ◆Present platform strategy, investment recommendations, build-versus-buy decisions, vendor choices, value cases, and risk assessments to the CTO, ELT, and senior business and technology leaders.
  • ◆Partner with enterprise executives and technology leaders to align AI platform investments with business priorities, risk expectations, and broader modernization roadmaps.

2. AI Operations, Copilot, Agentic AI, and Enterprise Enablement

  • ◆Own the enterprise capabilities and operating model for AI operations, LLMOps, platform reliability, AI enablement, developer experience, product onboarding, and production support.
  • ◆Lead engineering patterns and reusable assets for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Teams-based assistants, custom copilots, role-based business assistants, and enterprise AI agents embedded into workflows.
  • ◆Establish enterprise enablement services, including onboarding, reference implementations, prompt and agent libraries, connectors, integration adapters, evaluation harnesses, playbooks, and communities of practice.
  • ◆Drive adoption across Commercial, Customer Service, Finance, Supply Chain, Product, Quality, Regulatory, R&D, and enterprise functions while reducing fragmented or duplicative solutions.

3. Knowledge, Document, and Semantic Intelligence Platforms

  • ◆Own enterprise knowledge retrieval, document intelligence, and semantic architecture, including ingestion, metadata, access-aware retrieval, vector indexing, source attribution, citation quality, and lifecycle standards.
  • ◆Scale reusable document intelligence capabilities for classification, OCR, extraction, summarization, search, automation, and unstructured data processing.
  • ◆Establish semantic intelligence capabilities, including business glossaries, ontologies, semantic models, metadata catalogs, knowledge graphs, domain context layers, and reusable definitions.
  • ◆Define enterprise data-readiness standards for AI, including authoritative sources, permissions, lineage, freshness, retention, quality thresholds, and human validation.

4. Governance Automation, Responsible AI Operations, FinOps, and Risk

  • ◆Own governance automation and policy-as-code capabilities that embed responsible AI, privacy, security, quality, and compliance controls into the platform lifecycle.
  • ◆Establish enterprise AI FinOps, including consumption visibility, cost allocation, forecasting, capacity planning, model routing, caching, and cost-to-value reporting.
  • ◆Set LLMOps and AI observability standards for model and prompt performance, retrieval quality, hallucination risk, citation accuracy, latency, usage, incidents, user feedback, and production reliability.
  • ◆Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, and Data Governance to provide the CTO and ELT with platform risk assessments, control effectiveness, and remediation priorities.

5. Engineering Excellence and Enterprise Delivery

  • ◆Own a portfolio of reusable AI platform services, APIs, connectors, prompt modules, agent frameworks, model gateways, evaluation tools, monitoring capabilities, and semantic services.
  • ◆Set enterprise engineering standards for versioning, testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, documentation, incident response, lifecycle management, resilience, and retirement.

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