Senior AI/ML Engineering Leader

Verizon; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a senior AI leader to bridge enterprise strategy and technically-focused teams. You will interact with VP/SVP executives across Legal, InfoSec and Responsible AI to steer compliant, scalable AI initiatives.

You will guide a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, leverage cloud governance and data pipelines, and drive go/no-go decisions while ensuring maintainable code and scalable AI systems across the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of work experience.
• Ten+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years managing high-performing AI teams.
• Experience in AI Science/Engineering.
• Experience in AI/GenAI architecture, LLMOps, distributed systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with AI Platform Engineering leaders to ensure compliance.
• Direct a specialized team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists.
• Rely on Verizon's compliance policies, RIL frameworks, and AI safety standards.
• Utilizes executive dashboards, cloud governance frameworks, and AI evaluation architecture to guide deployment decisions.
• Leverages big data tools to redefine raw data into scalable data science models.
• Manages a team, planning work and distribution.
• Ensures production ML tasks run properly and code is scalable.

Skills

AI Engineering

Team Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Data Science

Education

Bachelor's degree

Masters in CS/AI

Job description

Verizon is seeking a senior AI leader to bridge enterprise strategy and technically-focused teams. You will interact with VP/SVP executives across Legal, InfoSec and Responsible AI to steer compliant, scalable AI initiatives.

You will guide a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, leverage cloud governance and data pipelines, and drive go/no-go decisions while ensuring maintainable code and scalable AI systems across the business.