Hybrid AI/ML Lead - Azure, MLOps & Generative Models

Ryerson; Downers Grove (IL); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K with employer-matching

Paid vacation, sick, and holidays

Job summary

Ryerson is seeking a Sr. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Developer to lead the design, development, and support of AI/ML solutions that help improve business processes and decision-making.

This role will own key AI/ML platforms, tools, and integrations while expanding automation, agents, and predictive models across the organization. You will work with business stakeholders to build scalable, secure, and practical AI solutions that deliver measurable value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Data Science or related field.
• 4+ years of AI/ML development, deployment, and support.
• Hands-on with Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Azure AI Search and generative AI.
• Experience building/deploying AI/ML models, agents, algorithms.
• Strong MLOps skills: versioning, automation, monitoring.
• Proficient with Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Databricks, HuggingFace.

Responsibilities

• Own full lifecycle of AI/ML systems from design to production support.
• Build and maintain AI/ML infra, models, agents across business functions.
• Serve as primary developer for AI/ML tools incl. Azure stack.
• Support agent development environments such as Copilot Studio and tools.
• Monitor AI/ML tech changes and recommend tools for business needs.
• Create reports/dashboards to track AI/ML performance, usage, adoption.
• Document systems, models, decisions, and processes for users.
• Partner with stakeholders to define goals, success measures, timelines, delivery plans.
• Support continuous improvement through code reviews, testing, deployment practices.

Skills

AI/ML development

MLOps

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Data Science or related field

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure Machine Learning

Azure AI Search

Python

SQL

Kubernetes

Databricks

HuggingFace

Copilot Studio

Azure Functions

Job description

Ryerson is seeking a Sr. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Developer to lead the design, development, and support of AI/ML solutions that help improve business processes and decision-making.

This role will own key AI/ML platforms, tools, and integrations while expanding automation, agents, and predictive models across the organization. You will work with business stakeholders to build scalable, secure, and practical AI solutions that deliver measurable value.