Senior AI Architecture & Enterprise Strategy Lead

Verizon; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

401(k) match

Total rewards package

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Senior Manager for AI Engineering & Enterprise Strategy to design and lead the architecture of real-time, autonomous AI across mission-critical applications. You will direct a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, shaping deployment gates and cost-optimized inference at scale.

This hybrid role requires deep AI/ML engineering, RL/LLM fine-tuning, and collaboration with VP/SVP executives to balance performance and safety across multiple locations (Basking Ridge,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 6+ years of work experience.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in AI/ML.
• 4+ years leading engineering/AI data science teams.
• 3+ years building AI evaluation and model optimization pipelines.
• Experience reducing LLM inference costs.
• Experience shipping multi-agent frameworks with safety guards.

Responsibilities

• Architect core AI agent evaluation, validation, and real-time observability systems.
• Lead a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, planning roadmaps.
• Drive AI optimization strategies and deployment gates for production use.
• Collaborate with AI Platform Engineering and cloud governance teams.
• Translate technical realities into executive go/no-go decisions.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Team leadership

Model optimization

LLMOps

Reinforcement Learning

Multi-agent frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Masters or PhD in CS/ML/AI

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

MCP

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Senior Manager for AI Engineering & Enterprise Strategy to design and lead the architecture of real-time, autonomous AI across mission-critical applications. You will direct a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, shaping deployment gates and cost-optimized inference at scale.

This hybrid role requires deep AI/ML engineering, RL/LLM fine-tuning, and collaboration with VP/SVP executives to balance performance and safety across multiple locations (Basking Ridge,