Senior AI Systems Architect & Tech Lead

XPO; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health insurance day one

Life and disability insurance

PTO 15 days first year

9 paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Education assistance

Incentive plan

Job summary

XPO is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for AI & Data Science in Boston. The role focuses on building scalable AI/ML systems, leading a technical team, and contributing code on critical components.

You will drive end-to-end machine learning initiatives and partner with dependent software teams to deploy models into production. The position emphasizes architecture reviews, governance, and delivering value via GenAI and MLOps best practices, with a compensation range reflecting senior leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work or military experience.
• 5 years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, Applied AI, Data Science, or MLOps, including hands-on experience architecting and building production ML/AI systems.
• 2+ years of experience leading or acting as technical lead for a focused technical team.
• Demonstrated ability to review model designs and code, evaluate architecture and technical tradeoffs, and contribute code directly when needed.
• Strong technical foundation in end-to-end AI systems, such as data requirements for building AI/ML systems and products.
• Designing and implementing scalable MLOps pipelines (training, evaluation, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, governance).
• Building production-grade ML inference services and APIs (batch and real-time).
• Developing and deploying Multimodal Generative AI solutions, including LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and Agents.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical agenda for the team's AI/ML initiatives, and prioritize and allocate work across scientists and engineers.
• Architect end-to-end AI/ML systems and review model designs, code, and technical approaches across the team.
• Contribute code directly on high-priority or high-risk components as needed.
• Run daily standups and provide weekly status updates to management.
• Manage stakeholder communication across business and technical audiences.
• Partner with dependent software development teams to integrate and launch models into production.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and performance tuning to ensure high engineering standards.
• Mentor scientists and engineers on production-ready AI development and best practices.

Skills

Python

Communication

Leadership

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's/PhD preferred

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

XPO is seeking a Technical Lead Manager for AI & Data Science in Boston. The role focuses on building scalable AI/ML systems, leading a technical team, and contributing code on critical components.

You will drive end-to-end machine learning initiatives and partner with dependent software teams to deploy models into production. The position emphasizes architecture reviews, governance, and delivering value via GenAI and MLOps best practices, with a compensation range reflecting senior leadership