Remote Director of Frontier AI Research & Production

TELUS Digital; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 211,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

Executive leadership role

Comprehensive benefits

Performance bonuses

Job summary

TELUS Digital seeks a Director, Forward Deployed Researcher to lead frontier AI research and oversee client-embedded production deployments across Fortune 500 accounts. You will guide strategic AI direction, mentor engineers, and work with executive stakeholders to deliver measurable business impact.

The role blends advanced research with enterprise consulting, demanding strong leadership, deep technical expertise, and a track record of delivering production-grade AI solutions in regulated

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering and AI/ML experience with production systems.
• 4+ years in senior leadership or management roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI research initiatives embedded at client sites and oversee production deployments.
• Mentor and build a high-performing Forward Deployed team of engineers and researchers.
• Collaborate with C-level stakeholders to align AI strategy with enterprise goals.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/AI/ML

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LangChain

Hugging Face

Job description

TELUS Digital seeks a Director, Forward Deployed Researcher to lead frontier AI research and oversee client-embedded production deployments across Fortune 500 accounts. You will guide strategic AI direction, mentor engineers, and work with executive stakeholders to deliver measurable business impact.

The role blends advanced research with enterprise consulting, demanding strong leadership, deep technical expertise, and a track record of delivering production-grade AI solutions in regulated