AI Engineering Leader — Enterprise Strategy & Optimization

Cellco Partnership

Basking Ridge (NJ)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Verizon is seeking a senior engineering leader to architect and govern autonomous AI systems at scale. You will drive agent evaluation pipelines, RL optimization, and LLM fine-tuning in a Fortune 20 environment, partnering with VP/SVPs to translate technical realities into deployment decisions.

You will lead a team of Principal AI Engineers to execute this vision across enterprise AI platforms. You will build real-time observability, integrate with cloud governance, and ensure cost-efficient

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or six+ years of work experience.
Ten+ years of relevant AI/ML engineering experience.
Four+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering (LLMOps, model eval, fine-tuning, distributed systems).
Three+ years of managing engineering/AI data science teams.
Hands-on experience architecting AI evaluation frameworks and model optimization pipelines.
Proven ability to optimize LLM inference costs and throughput.

Responsibilities

Architect and build core systems for continuous AI agent evaluation and real-time observability across the enterprise.
Drive RL techniques, model tuning, and throughput improvements to reduce inference costs.
Lead fine-tuning of LLMs to increase system throughput while maintaining accuracy.
Design and deploy lightweight models to intercept, triage, and reduce expensive LLM calls.
Mentor Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, setting technical roadmaps.