Senior AI Tech Lead - Enterprise ML Architect & Mentor

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a seasoned AI TechLead to work with our team and clients to develop enterprise-grade predictive and generative AI solutions, pipelines, and visualizations. The Tech Lead will be a technologist with strong communication skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

The role spans the spectrum of data science development, architecture, and hands-on coding, mentoring a team, and driving AI/ML deployments with robust MLOps and governance practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/ML or related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Master's degree in CS/AI/ML or related field with 8+ years of experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on AI/ML.
• Proven track record leading and mentoring AI teams.
• Strong Python skills with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
• Cloud proficiency across AWS, Azure, or GCP; scalable deployments.
• DevSecOps practices and CI/CD for AI projects.
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication to explain complex concepts to stakeholders.
• Ability to balance tech leadership with hands-on development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of developers on AI/ML solutions.
• Architect scalable AI/ML systems and ensure engineering best practices.
• Drive adoption of AI technologies across the organization.
• Design end-to-end ML pipelines from data ingestion to deployment.
• Enforce AI development standards, versioning, testing, and documentation.
• Oversee production integration of AI models for reliable performance.
• Collaborate with data scientists to translate algorithms into production code.
• Establish robust MLOps practices to optimize the lifecycle.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication skills

Python programming

AI/ML development

Agile methodologies

Data problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/ML

Master's degree in CS/AI/ML

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Docker

Kubernetes

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a seasoned AI TechLead to work with our team and clients to develop enterprise-grade predictive and generative AI solutions, pipelines, and visualizations. The Tech Lead will be a technologist with strong communication skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

The role spans the spectrum of data science development, architecture, and hands-on coding, mentoring a team, and driving AI/ML deployments with robust MLOps and governance practices.