Senior Director, AI/ML Engineering (Hybrid)

Verizon; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Vacation days

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a senior AI engineering leader to serve as a strategic bridge across the enterprise, interfacing daily with VP/SVP-level executives in Legal, InfoSec and Responsible AI. You will lead a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, guide AI platform owners, and ensure compliance with RAI, NIST RMF, and corporate policies.

The role is hybrid, with a mix of home and three days in the office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Ten+ years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work or military experience or specialized training.
• Three+ years of managing high-performing engineering/AI teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with AI Platform Engineering leaders to guide AI product owners for compliance.
• Direct a specialized team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists.
• Rely on Verizon's compliance policies and AI safety standards to drive decisions.
• Leverage dashboards, cloud governance and AI evaluation architectures for go/no-go deployment decisions.
• Ensure data pipelines produce scalable, reusable data science models.
• Manage a team including planning work and distributing tasks.

Skills

Team management

AI/GenAI architecture

LLMOps

Enterprise risk management

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or four+ years experience

Masters in Computer Science or AI Science

Job description

Verizon is seeking a senior AI engineering leader to serve as a strategic bridge across the enterprise, interfacing daily with VP/SVP-level executives in Legal, InfoSec and Responsible AI. You will lead a team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists, guide AI platform owners, and ensure compliance with RAI, NIST RMF, and corporate policies.

The role is hybrid, with a mix of home and three days in the office.