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60 Mckinstry Modeler Jobs Hiring Near You

Keeps McKinstry portable across model providers through a provider-gateway layer, so changing a model or vendor is a configuration change, not a rebuild, with cost-tier routing and automatic failover.

BIM Professional

Seattle, WA · On-site

$33.58 - $51.83/hr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Works with peers to further develop modeling and drafting skills while gaining a deeper ...

Lead Engineer - Mechanical

Portland, OR · On-site +1

$95K - $147K/yr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Energy modeling experience preferred. * Professional Engineer registration is required. * LEED ...

Project Engineer III- Mechanical

Seattle, WA · On-site

$39.20 - $62.31/hr

... models for construction. * Pursues an understanding of the technical foundation of design activities and decisions. What You Need to Succeed at McKinstry * Bachelor's degree in Engineering or ...

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Energy modeling experience preferred. * Professional Engineer registration is required. * LEED ...

Project Engineer III- Mechanical

Golden, CO · On-site

$39.20 - $62.31/hr

... models for construction. * Pursues an understanding of the technical foundation of design activities and decisions. What You Need to Succeed at McKinstry * 3-5 years of HVAC design experience.

Project Engineer III- Mechanical

Golden, CO · On-site

$39.20 - $62.31/hr

... models for construction. * Pursues an understanding of the technical foundation of design activities and decisions. What You Need to Succeed at McKinstry * 3-5 years of HVAC design experience.

Lead Engineer - Mechanical

Spokane, WA · On-site

$95K - $140K/yr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Energy modeling experience preferred. * Professional Engineer registration is required. * LEED ...

Lead Engineer - Mechanical

Spokane, WA · On-site +1

$95K - $140K/yr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Energy modeling experience preferred. * Professional Engineer registration is required. * LEED ...

Senior Manager, Security Engineering

Seattle, WA · On-site

$130K - $178K/yr

... McKinstry's security architecture standards, conducting threat modeling and providing security sign-off on new systems, platforms, and cloud deployments. • Govern network security posture across on ...

BIM Professional

Seattle, WA · On-site +1

$33.58 - $51.83/hr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Works with peers to further develop modeling and drafting skills while gaining a deeper ...

BIM Professional

Spokane, WA · On-site +1

$33.58 - $46.64/hr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Works with peers to further develop modeling and drafting skills while gaining a deeper ...

BIM Professional

Spokane, WA · On-site

$33.58 - $46.64/hr

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating ... Works with peers to further develop modeling and drafting skills while gaining a deeper ...

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McKinstry Jobs Information

Do workers at McKinstry get paid breaks?

Yes. Most people get paid breaks.
85% of people say they get paid breaks.
Based on data from 13 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Does McKinstry pay people when they’re sick?

Sometimes. Only some people get paid when they’re sick.
56% of people say they wouldn’t get paid if they were sick but scheduled to work.
Based on data from 16 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

At McKinstry, are sick days and vacation days separate paid time off?

Only some people have separate paid time off for sick days and vacation.
67% of people say they have to use vacation days when they’re out sick.
Based on data from 6 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between June 2025 and March 2026.

Is the health insurance from McKinstry affordable enough for their workers?

Most people say the health insurance costs are okay.
100% of people say the health insurance costs are okay
Based on data from 12 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2025 and July 2026.

Do people get paid time off at McKinstry?

Some people get paid time off from work.
46% of people say they don’t get paid time off.
Based on data from 13 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between June 2025 and July 2026.

Do workers at McKinstry worry about hours?

Most people don’t worry about getting enough hours.
89% of people report they don’t worry about getting enough hours.
Based on data from 9 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and August 2025.

Do McKinstry workers get to choose the shifts they work?

Some people don’t get to choose which shifts they work.
38% report that they don’t have enough control over which shifts they work.
Based on data from 8 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and August 2025.

How easy is it for McKinstry workers to change shifts?

Most people find it easy to change shifts.
80% of people report that it’s easy to change shifts if they need to.
Based on data from 5 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and August 2025.

How easy is it to get time off at McKinstry?

Most people find it easy to get time off.
94% of people report it’s easy to get time off.
Based on data from 18 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do McKinstry managers change schedules at the last minute?

Most managers don’t change people’s schedules at the last minute.
89% of people say their manager doesn’t change their shift schedule at the last minute.
Based on data from 9 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and August 2025.

Do jobs at McKinstry spill into time workers aren’t paid for?

Rarely. The job doesn't usually spill into unpaid time.
0% of people report that their job takes up time that they don’t get paid for.
Based on data from 9 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and August 2025.

How easy is it to take sick days at McKinstry?

Most people find it easy to take sick days.
100% of people report that it’s easy to take time off if they are sick.
Based on data from 17 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Is working at McKinstry good if you’re a parent or caregiver?

Most parents and caregivers say this is a good place to work.
67% of people who care for a child or other relative report this is a good place to work.
Based on data from 6 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people at McKinstry feel treated with respect by their managers?

Most people feel treated with respect by their managers.
94% of people say they’re treated with respect by their managers.
Based on data from 18 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people at McKinstry get to take their breaks without interruption?

Most people get breaks without interruption.
88% of people report that they get to take their breaks without interruption.
Based on data from 17 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Is it stressful to work at McKinstry?

Some people feel stressed here.
44% of people say they often feel stressed at work.
Based on data from 16 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people at McKinstry enjoy their jobs?

Most people enjoy their job.
100% of people report they enjoy their job.
Based on data from 17 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people at McKinstry recommend working with their team?

Most people recommend working with their team.
79% of people report that they would recommend working with their immediate team to a friend.
Based on data from 19 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people get enough training when they start at McKinstry?

Most people got enough training when they started.
78% of people report they got enough training when they started working here.
Based on data from 18 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people get support to advance at McKinstry?

Most people are given support to advance their career here.
In the last year, 89% of people report being given support to advance their career here.
Based on data from 19 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do people think McKinstry’s headquarters understands what’s happening where they work?

Most people think headquarters understands what’s happening where they work.
71% of people think that this employer’s headquarters or owners have a good understanding of what’s really happening where they work.
Based on data from 17 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.

Do workers feel well informed about how McKinstry is doing?

Most people feel well informed about how the company is doing.
87% of people feel that they are kept well informed about how the company is doing as a whole.
Based on data from 15 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between December 2024 and July 2026.
Infographic showing various Modeler job openings at Mckinstry in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 98% Full Time, 1% Part Time, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 93% Physical, and 7% Remote job distribution.

Director, AI Engineering

McKinstry

Seattle, WA • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 9 days ago


McKinstry rating

9.7

Company rating: 9.7 out of 10

Based on 19 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz


Job description

Build the future, spark innovation and align your career with purpose.
McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating lasting impact. Together, we're building a thriving planet.
Buildings are a leading contributor to the climate crisis, generating nearly 40% of total global energy-related carbon emissions. We're making a lasting impact on our industry and within our communities by addressing the climate, affordability and equity crises through:
  • renewables and energy services
  • engineering and design
  • construction and facility services

To get where we're going, we need big thinkers, problem solvers and collaborative mindsets. Does that sound like you?
The Opportunity with McKinstry
We are adding a Director, AI Engineering to our team in Seattle, WA. The Director, AI Engineering owns the development of the company's core AI technology and the platform it runs on, the enterprise engineering function, the technical strategy and reference architecture, and the production operations that keep released systems trusted. The role turns approved, requirements-backed use cases into secure, production-grade systems, agents, APIs, and integrations for every spoke, built once to a shared standard. Partners closely with enterprise AI strategy and leadership on use-case selection, prioritized roadmaps, enterprise architecture, to ensure the right systems and technical foundation.
  • Owns the AI technical strategy and reference architecture. Sets how AI systems are engineered: the reference architecture, integration patterns, agent platform, and build-versus-reuse calls that keep the portfolio coherent, built on McKinstry's Filesystem-Driven Agent Architecture. Enterprise strategy and portfolio selection sit with leadership; this role owns the technical strategy that executes them.
  • Owns the AI platform and the agent harness. Builds and operates McKinstry's core AI platform: the agent harness that turns a model into a governed capability (provider gateway, routing, context, memory, tool execution, output validation, and instrumentation), implemented on the Filesystem-Driven Agent Architecture, where every agent, skill, tool, and hook is defined in version-controlled files and folder location determines what is live. This is the platform the whole program builds on.
  • Owns the model-agnostic strategy and leads the build, buy, or host decision-making process. Keeps McKinstry portable across model providers through a provider-gateway layer, so changing a model or vendor is a configuration change, not a rebuild, with cost-tier routing and automatic failover. Owns the technical call on when to run managed models (Claude and peers), when to host models inside McKinstry's own tenant for data sovereignty or cost, and when to fine-tune or stand up an in-house or open-source model. Integrates and operates the selected platforms and partners (Anthropic, Microsoft, cloud providers) to McKinstry standards, including evaluation, support escalation, and capacity management. Commercial terms and vendor strategy sit with leadership.
  • Owns the enterprise AI engineering function and standards. Runs the shared production build capability that serves every spoke, and sets the engineering standards, code-quality bar, and agent build-and-evaluation methodology, so systems are built once to a known standard instead of re-solved division by division.
  • Owns the AI marketplace. Owns the build and operation of the enterprise agent marketplace (McKinstry Labs): the catalog of approved, tested, reusable agents, skills, and tools that divisions discover and build on, so capability compounds across the company instead of being rebuilt spoke by spoke.
  • Chairs the architecture and production-readiness reviews. Owns the technical gate: nothing reaches production without passing it. A fully technical authority, separate from the strategy and governance chairs.
  • Engineers approved work into shipped systems. Takes the prioritized scope set by the domain directors and their product managers and engineers it into production: design, build, test, deploy, and the move from prototype to production-grade system. Owns delivery commitments and timelines. Every build starts from agreed requirements with a named business owner and is validated with end users.
  • Builds and leads the engineering team. Recruits, develops, and directs the AI, ML, software, and platform management and engineers; allocates capacity against agreed priorities. Accountable for throughput, quality, and the cost, risk, and value of what ships from experiment through sunset.
  • Owns production operations and the agent lifecycle. Runs deployment, monitoring, observability, LLMOps, versioning, and lifecycle management in production, including the evaluation harness and release gates that keep systems accurate and safe.
  • Owns the AI technology radar. Runs structured evaluations of emerging models, tools, and platforms and sets the program's default technical position; escalates cross-division, client-facing, or spend-bearing calls for ratification.
  • Engineers security and responsible-AI controls into the build. Works with Information Security to build data protection, access control, model-access governance, prompt-injection defense, and output validation into the system, so guardrails live in code, not just policy. Implements the controls that satisfy RLSC and Data Governance policy.
  • Builds on the enterprise data foundation, not around it. Works with the Enterprise Data & AI Architect so every system reads and writes against the Four IDs and the MDM spine, and integrates into McKinstry systems such as Procore, Dynamics, and Fabric rather than standing up disconnected stores.

What You Need to Succeed at McKinstry
  • 15+ years in software engineering, with hands-on experience shipping and operating production systems, and enough recent depth to set the technical bar, not only manage to it.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating AI or ML applications in production (LLM applications, agents, RAG, evaluation, tool and function calling, multi-agent orchestration) as the person accountable for whether the system worked.
  • Platform depth: has built or operated an agent harness or runtime and a provider-abstraction layer, with sound judgment on managed, self-hosted, and open-source model tradeoffs across cost, latency, and data sovereignty.
  • Experience managing a team of 5+ direct reports, or 10+ including matrixed contributors, owning hiring, budget, and a delivery culture that balances exploration with production commitments.
  • Architecture judgment: can set a reference architecture and integration patterns for a portfolio of systems and hold teams and vendors to them, while building against an enterprise data layer owned elsewhere.
  • Fluent in modern cloud and AI delivery engineering (for example Azure, APIs, CI/CD, LLMOps, observability), able to integrate against enterprise systems and a master-data layer rather than building disconnected stores.
  • Can translate product requirements and data constraints into a build plan engineers execute, and validate the result with end users.
  • Security-by-design discipline: builds access control, data residency, model-access governance, prompt-injection defense, and output validation into the system rather than bolting them on later.
  • Strong written and verbal communication: can write a technical design an engineer builds from, and report engineering status and risk to executives without rework.
  • Comfortable owning the build, the platform, the technical strategy, and the solution architecture without owning enterprise strategy or product, engineering the right thing on a data spine owned elsewhere.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; relevant experience may be substituted. Cloud or security engineering credentials preferred.

PeopleFirst Benefits
When it comes to the basics, we have you covered:
  • Competitive pay
  • 401(k) with employer match and profit-sharing plan
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision with low or zero deductible options and low out of pocket maximums

People come first at McKinstry, and we go beyond the basic benefits with:
  • Family formation benefits, including adoption and IVF assistance
  • Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Transgender inclusive benefits
  • Commuter benefits
  • Pet insurance
  • "Building Good" paid community service time
  • Learning and advancement opportunities via McKinstry University
  • McKinstry Moves onsite gyms or reimbursement for remote workers

See benefit plan documents for complete details.
If you're driven by our vision to build a thriving planet together, McKinstry is the place to build your career.
The pay range for this position is $165,800 - $252,100 per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Base pay information is based on market location.
The McKinstry group of companies are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, race, color, creed, marital status, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to employment, advancement, assignment, and training. This commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity is made equally as a social responsibility and as an economic and business necessity.
McKinstry is a drug-free workplace. Employment iscontingent upon successfully passing a pre-employment drug and alcohol test, complying with the requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act and a Confidentiality Agreement, in addition to successful outcomes of background and reference checks.
Applicants for this role will only be considered if they possess current US Work Authorization, and do not require employer-sponsored VISA support to begin or remain in this role.
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