AI/ML Modeling Lead — Predictive Maintenance for USAF

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Redhorse Corporation is seeking an AI/ML Modeling Lead to support the USAF CBM+ program. You will lead a modeling team to translate complex mission objectives into scalable predictive models that forecast failures and optimize maintenance, operating within Advana.

You will ensure explainability, governance, and alignment with warfighter readiness. The role requires a DoD Secret clearance, 6+ years in data science/ML, and experience guiding cross-functional teams in agile environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive experience in data science, analytics, or ML with leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day modeling team delivery, sprint planning, peer reviews, and cross-functional coordination.
• Translate mission objectives and stakeholder inputs into defined modeling requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Provide architectural direction on modeling techniques, feature engineering, data inputs, validation protocols, and performance tradeoffs.
• Review modeling pipelines and artifacts for quality, governance, and compliance with data standards.
• Collaborate with data engineers, software developers, product owners, and USAF stakeholders to deploy models into scalable production pipelines.
• Identify dependencies and risks, proposing mitigation plans to leadership.
• Mentor data scientists and analysts with best practices and disciplined version control.

Skills

Data science

Leadership

Agile

Stakeholder comms

Cloud architectures

Modeling

Data governance

Education

Master's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Redhorse Corporation is seeking an AI/ML Modeling Lead to support the USAF CBM+ program. You will lead a modeling team to translate complex mission objectives into scalable predictive models that forecast failures and optimize maintenance, operating within Advana.

You will ensure explainability, governance, and alignment with warfighter readiness. The role requires a DoD Secret clearance, 6+ years in data science/ML, and experience guiding cross-functional teams in agile environments.