Director of AI & Data Science, Generative AI Leader

USAA Life Insurance Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company seeks a Director of Data Science to lead enterprise AI transformation using Generative AI, LLMs, and autonomous agent ecosystems. You will architect scalable platforms and guide a high-performing team of AI/Data Scientists and engineers in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and IT to deploy modern AI infrastructure while ensuring governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across models and workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in machine learning, AI development, or data science with production deployments.
• 3+ years leading technical teams in fast-moving environments.
• Proven ability to design scalable, enterprise AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI strategy leveraging generative AI, LLMs and autonomous agent workflows.
• Direct and empower a team to build scalable LLM apps and pipelines in agile settings.
• Architect and guide production-ready AI solutions from ideation to cost-efficient inference.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and IT to establish modern AI infrastructure and tooling.
• Ensure AI governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across models and workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Strategic agility

Cross-enterprise impact

Team building

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/Data Science

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

Job description

USAA Life Insurance Company seeks a Director of Data Science to lead enterprise AI transformation using Generative AI, LLMs, and autonomous agent ecosystems. You will architect scalable platforms and guide a high-performing team of AI/Data Scientists and engineers in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and IT to deploy modern AI infrastructure while ensuring governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across models and workflows.