Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

Halo Group; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence Engineering. This role focuses on leading engineering teams to build products that leverage deep learning technologies. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in AI, deep learning, and management experience. Responsibilities include recruiting talent, developing software solutions, and facilitating collaboration across teams. Competitive salary and a dynamic work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience with an emphasis on deep-learning and AI technologies.
• 4 years of management experience in a technical environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish software development team and standards.
• Recruit world-class deep learning talent.
• Develop functionality in an agile fashion with regular releases.
• Facilitate cross-organizational collaboration on product definitions.
• Research customer needs with Product Management.

Skills

Deep learning

Artificial Intelligence technologies

Agile development

Team leadership

Customer focus

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

TensorFlow

Apache Spark

Apache Hadoop

Job description

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

• Full-time

Halo Group is a premier provider of IT talent. We place technology experts within the teams of the world’s leading companies and help clients build innovative businesses that keep them one step closer to their customers and one step ahead of the competition.

Halo Group strives to be among the most respected IT consulting firms by providing unmatched customer, consultant and employee support. A meaningful work environment for employees, attractive and interesting engagements for consultants, and cutting edge innovation for our customers set us apart from the rest. At Halo Group, people are not a commodity, but our greatest resource.

We delight in watching our customers utilize technology to succeed. Big projects or small, Halo Group combines the highest quality talent with our unwavering support to become an invaluable extension of your team. Our goal is not to meet expectations, but to exceed them as our consultants learn your business and duplicate success within your company. We call it The Halo Group Effect.

We are seeking a technical leader responsible for leading engineering teams building products that make deep learning technologies useful for enterprise customers. The engineering director will recruit and lead teams, both to build foundation capabilities by extending and contributing to open source, and to integrate with enterprise analytics software.

This role is part of a focused team that is incubating artificial intelligence offerings within the product organization.

It involves working closely with an offer management team who work with customers to define market segments and focus areas, product roadmap and requirements, other product development teams within our client and with consulting services who are working with customers to deliver AI solutions including data science, analytic application development, and operations.

This is an Engineering position, which will provide for research and development activities in areas such as enterprise deployment of deep neural networks using TensorFlow, integration with cluster management software with integration to Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and other analytics products.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Establish software development team and standards, building on supporting infrastructure
• Recruit world class Deep Learning talent
• Develop functionality in an agile fashion, with regular releases
• Follow a lean startup model of developing MVPs and learning from customer projects
• Develop team skills from GPU foundations to application APIs
• Build great software that supports enterprise needs
• Work with Strategic Product Manager and Marketing to provide technical consulting services for pre‑and post‑sales teams to include content generation and internal and external presentations
• Facilitate cross organizational collaboration of product definitions and designs for development teams to leverage
• Research customer needs and requirements with Product Management
• Represent technology and solutions to customer and prospects
• Facilitate a fun and learning environment which is agile and customer focused

Requirements

MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent discipline. 10 years’ experience with emphasis on deep‑learning and AI technologies. 4 years’ management experience.

This position is available in Santa Clara, CA. This fast‑paced high‑tech environment is perfect for individuals seeking to exercise innovation and out of the box thinking to lead our Artificial Intelligence incubation team’s product delivery.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.