Remote Lead AI Engineer — Production ML & Data Solutions

Maximus; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Engineer - Data Science and Algorithms for the AI Transformation and Experience team. This remote role focuses on designing, building, testing, deploying, and improving production AI algorithms used across enterprise and government programs.

You will mentor staff and drive scalable solutions leveraging cloud platforms and cutting-edge AI techniques. You will work with engineers and technical specialists to deliver real mission outcomes, translate complex technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study and 10+ years of relevant professional experience required.
• 7+ years of professional advanced algorithm building and data science experience, including substantial experience building and supporting production algorithms on systems processing real data.
• 7+ years of professional Data Science or advanced algorithm building experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing or building solutions in cloud environments.
• 3+ years of experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning, or related technologies.
• Demonstrated experience developing algorithms including AI and machine learning algorithms.
• Strong understanding of the application of mathematics, AI, and signal processing in production algorithms.
• Experience designing and implementing algorithms on AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with deploying algorithms on production systems outside of notebooks (e.g. outside sagemaker, jupyter).
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML capabilities into software systems.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and risks clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• US Citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead the applied and responsible use of AI, ML, mathematical, and data science solutions.
• Lead efforts across the enterprise to support the creation of solutions and real mission outcomes.
• Act as technical translator and role model for communicating technical needs to all levels.
• Maintain knowledge of AI landscape and evaluate applicability for production.
• Lead creation, curation, and promotion of playbooks and best practices.
• Design, build, and improve production AI solutions.
• Own difficult technical problems from exploration to deployment and improvement.
• Write high-quality software and contribute to enterprise capabilities.
• Build AI-enabled applications integrating models, data, cloud services, APIs, and systems.
• Improve AI solutions with holistic algorithmic improvements.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies through hands-on experimentation.
• Build reusable components and reference implementations for teams.
• Mentor staff through solutioning of custom algorithms.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

Algorithms

Data Science

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Production Systems

Systems Programming (C++, C, Rust)

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Maximus is seeking a Lead AI Engineer - Data Science and Algorithms for the AI Transformation and Experience team. This remote role focuses on designing, building, testing, deploying, and improving production AI algorithms used across enterprise and government programs.

You will mentor staff and drive scalable solutions leveraging cloud platforms and cutting-edge AI techniques. You will work with engineers and technical specialists to deliver real mission outcomes, translate complex technical