Chief AI Architect & R&D Leader

TransUnion LLC; City of White Plains (NY); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 353,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work options

Job summary

TransUnion LLC is seeking a visionary leader for the role of VP, Data Science and Analytics within the Artificial Intelligence Research & Development team. The position drives the enterprise AI R&D strategy, uniting classical AI withGenerative AI to deliver differentiated products and customer outcomes.

You will build and scale a team of applied scientists and ML engineers, translating cutting-edge research into production-ready platforms while collaborating with product, engineering, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical fields, including leadership of large-scale AI R&D organizations and delivery of measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying AI-powered products that combine generative AI and classical AI techniques in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of hybrid AI system design and trade-offs among symbolic, deterministic, probabilistic, and learning-based approaches.
• Executive-level communication and cross-functional leadership experience, with the ability to influence senior leaders and guide complex AI systems from research through commercialization.
• PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or related discipline with emphasis in classical AI, such as planning, search, logic, or knowledge representation, or equivalent advanced expertise gained through relevant research and industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise AI R&D strategy, integrating classical and generative AI into cohesive architectures that support differentiated business and customer outcomes.
• Lead the design and development of production-grade agentic systems, cognitive architectures, and planning-based AI frameworks for real-world decisioning.
• Advance hybrid AI systems that combine symbolic reasoning, statistical learning, large language models, and deterministic methods such as constraint satisfaction.
• Build, lead, and scale a high-performing organization of applied scientists, machine learning engineers, and research engineers.
• Translate research in automated planning, knowledge graphs, reinforcement learning, optimization, and LLM orchestration into production-ready platforms and reusable components.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Solutions, and business leaders to identify high-value use cases and embed AI capabilities into customer-facing products.
• Establish practices for AI experimentation, evaluation, reproducibility, and benchmarking, including performance measures for hybrid AI systems.
• Develop reusable AI capabilities, including reasoning engines, orchestration layers, agent frameworks, and shared platform components.
• Build relationships with academia and industry to keep TransUnion connected to emerging AI research and talent.
• Embed responsible AI principles, including transparency, explainability, fairness, governance, and risk management, into autonomous and AI-enabled systems.

Skills

Generative AI architectures

Hybrid AI system design

Executive communication

Leadership

Reinforcement learning

Planning & knowledge representation

Education

PhD in AI / CS or related

Job description

TransUnion LLC is seeking a visionary leader for the role of VP, Data Science and Analytics within the Artificial Intelligence Research & Development team. The position drives the enterprise AI R&D strategy, uniting classical AI withGenerative AI to deliver differentiated products and customer outcomes.

You will build and scale a team of applied scientists and ML engineers, translating cutting-edge research into production-ready platforms while collaborating with product, engineering, and