Harness Engineer, Director

FICO (NYSE: FICO ) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential! The Opportunity As a Director, AI Harness Engineering, you will lead a new internal team that lets AI coding agents do reliable work at scale. As agents take on more of the software lifecycle, the hard part is no longer writing code - agents generate it faster than humans can review it, so the bottleneck shifts to verification and trust. Harness Engineering exists to break that bottleneck: engineering the environment that steers agents toward correct, maintainable, well-architected output so that quality is enforced by the system, not re-audited by a person on every change. We call that environment the harness (Agent = Model + Harness), and we're building a dedicated Harness Engineering team to own it. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will design and build harness components while leading and growing a regional team of harness engineers and setting the quality bar for AI-assisted engineering across the organization. What You’ll Contribute Help design, build, and evolve the harness, the guides, feedback loops, guardrails, and shared context that turn raw model capability into production-grade engineering. This is a hands-on role; you will contribute to the development, not just direct it. Build and maintain feedforward guides (agent instruction files, reusable skills, architectur