AI ML Engineering Lead for Production ML Systems

Teradyne; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 319,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement plans

Job summary

Teradyne in North Reading, MA, is seeking a Technical Lead Manager, AI Engineering, to be the technical authority for an AI product track and to manage the engineers delivering it. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on architecture, reviews, and high engineering standards.

You will lead a team of ML engineers, own a portion of the multi-year AI roadmap, and move initiatives from evaluation through benefit realization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, or a related field, including production ownership of ML systems.
• Experience leading engineers through mentoring, technical leadership, or management.
• Depth in time-series/anomaly detection, computer vision for inspection, or applied LLM/agentic systems.
• Experience deploying and maintaining ML systems, including MLOps, monitoring, evaluation, and iteration.
• Ability to establish technical direction and communicate effectively with customers, business units, and executives.
• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or related field—or equivalent industry experience demonstrating technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set modeling and architecture standards for your track and lead design reviews.
• Stay hands-on by prototyping to reduce risk and review data, code, and models.
• Lead initiatives through evaluation, development, pilot, and benefit realization; own associated FTE estimates and delivery commitments.
• Hire, coach, and develop ML engineers, including performance management.
• Translate business needs into tractable ML problems and explain model behavior to stakeholders.
• Partner with peer Technical Lead Managers to maintain consistent standards across the AI Product organization.
• Own production quality, including monitoring, drift, retraining, and response to model issues.
• Represent your track in roadmap, resourcing, and executive reviews.

Skills

Machine learning

Technical leadership

ML deployment

Communication

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in CS/EE/Statistics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face Transformers

MLflow

Weights & Biases

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Teradyne in North Reading, MA, is seeking a Technical Lead Manager, AI Engineering, to be the technical authority for an AI product track and to manage the engineers delivering it. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on architecture, reviews, and high engineering standards.

You will lead a team of ML engineers, own a portion of the multi-year AI roadmap, and move initiatives from evaluation through benefit realization.