Director of AI/ML Engineering & Strategy (Hybrid)

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package

Hybrid work arrangement

Holiday and personal days

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a strategic leader who will act as the primary bridge across the enterprise, interfacing with VP/SVP-level executives in Legal, InfoSec, and Responsible AI. The role guides BU-level AI product owners, ensures compliance, and directs a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists.

The position requires a strong background in AI science/engineering, deep experience managing high-performing teams, and familiarity with governance and risk frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Ten or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Three or more years of managing high-performing engineering/AI teams.
• Experience in AI Science/Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with AI Platform Engineering leaders who build the models, and they guide BU-level AI product owners to ensure compliance.
• Direct a specialized team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists.
• Rely on Verizon's corporate compliance policies, RIL (Responsible AI, Integrity, Legal) frameworks, and industry AI safety standards (e.g., NIST AI RMF).
• Utilizes executive dashboards, cloud governance frameworks (AWS/GCP), AI registration hubs (Engram, Agent Registry), and the 4-Quadrant AI Evaluation architecture to make strategic go/no-go deployment decisions.
• Responsible for the leveraging of big data tools and programming frameworks to ensure that the raw data gathered from data pipelines are redefined as data science models that are ready to scale as needed.
• Manages a team of employees including planning work and dividing it among employees.
• Ensures that production ML tasks are working properly and that data science code is maintainable and scalable using subject matter expertise.

Skills

AI/GenAI architecture

LLMOps

Enterprise risk management

Distributed systems

AI Science/Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree in CS/AI

Job description

Verizon is seeking a strategic leader who will act as the primary bridge across the enterprise, interfacing with VP/SVP-level executives in Legal, InfoSec, and Responsible AI. The role guides BU-level AI product owners, ensures compliance, and directs a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists.

The position requires a strong background in AI science/engineering, deep experience managing high-performing teams, and familiarity with governance and risk frameworks.