Lead AI/ML Data Platform Engineer

Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. seeks a Lead AI Engineer to shape AI/ML enablement across the organization, starting hands-on with data platforms and pipelines, then taking a leadership role in governance and deployment.

You will partner with Data Governance, Data Engineering and Product teams to define AI/ML frameworks, MLOps strategy, and scalable architectures, delivering prototypes and roadmaps while ensuring security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in data engineering on large-scale data platforms.
• 3+ years delivering ML/AI solutions to production environments.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Experience with governance, compliance, and data security in AI/ML initiatives.
• Proven autonomous ownership of complex projects from design to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize data pipelines and platform components for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases.
• Own complex engineering initiatives from design through rollout with minimal oversight.
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues in the data platform.
• Propose innovative data engineering solutions and improvements.
• Write clean, tested code and infrastructure-as-code with strong engineering hygiene.
• Define AI/ML frameworks, evaluate tools, and establish MLOps standards.
• Build prototypes delivering immediate value to engineering teams.
• Shape and implement MLOps for model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with Data Governance to ensure alignment with governance and compliance.

Skills

Data pipelines

Spark

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

Python

API design

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

RAG

Vector databases

LangChain

MLOps

Model deployment

Governance

Agentic systems

Data Vault 2.0

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

Job description

Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. seeks a Lead AI Engineer to shape AI/ML enablement across the organization, starting hands-on with data platforms and pipelines, then taking a leadership role in governance and deployment.

You will partner with Data Governance, Data Engineering and Product teams to define AI/ML frameworks, MLOps strategy, and scalable architectures, delivering prototypes and roadmaps while ensuring security and compliance.