Associate Director -AI/ML Engineering

What You’ll Be Doing

• Acts as the primary strategic bridge across the enterprise, interacting daily with VP and SVP-level executives across Legal, Information Security (InfoSec), and Responsible AI (RAI)
• Partners closely with AI Platform Engineering leaders who build the models and guides BU-level AI product owners to ensure compliance
• Directs a specialized team of Principal AI Engineers and Scientists
• Relies on Verizon's corporate compliance policies, RIL (Responsible AI, Integrity, Legal) frameworks, and industry AI safety standards (e.g., NIST AI RMF)
• Utilizes executive dashboards, cloud governance frameworks (AWS/GCP), AI registration hubs (Engram, Agent Registry), and the 4-Quadrant AI Evaluation architecture to make strategic go/no-go deployment decisions
• Responsible for leveraging big data tools and programming frameworks to ensure raw data gathered from data pipelines are redefined as data science models that are ready to scale as needed
• Manages a team of employees including planning work and dividing it among employees
• Ensures that production ML tasks are working properly and that data science code is maintainable and scalable using subject matter expertise

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
• Ten or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training
• Three or more years of managing high-performing engineering/AI teams
• Experience in AI Science/Engineering

Even Better If You Have

• Experience in AI/GenAI architecture, LLMOps, enterprise risk management, and distributed systems
• Masters in Computer Science or AI Science
• Ten or more years of AI Science/Engineering

Where You'll Be Working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Benefits and Compensation

• Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home & auto insurance
• Matched 401(k) savings plan
• Up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance
• Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service
• For part-timers, coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some benefits depending on your individual circumstances
• Incentive based position with potential to earn more

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

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