Hybrid AI/ML Engineering Director

Verizon; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits (medical,

401(k) match

Paid time off with vacation days and 8

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a seasoned AI leader to drive strategic initiatives across platforms and data governance. You will guide a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, aligning models with compliance and enterprise risk standards.

The role blends hands-on AI science with cross-functional leadership in a hybrid work environment, requiring a track record of managing high-performing teams and delivering scalable data-driven solutions.

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

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

People management

AI/ML expertise

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Verizon is seeking a seasoned AI leader to drive strategic initiatives across platforms and data governance. You will guide a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, aligning models with compliance and enterprise risk standards.

The role blends hands-on AI science with cross-functional leadership in a hybrid work environment, requiring a track record of managing high-performing teams and delivering scalable data-driven solutions.