Principal Engineer Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineering

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What you’ll be doing...

The Systems of Insight (SOI) group under Verizon’s AI&D organization is looking for a highly skilled innovative senior AI/ML Engineer.

As a principal member of Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics, you will drive AI/ML Engineering and Platform initiatives within AI&D. You will pro-actively evaluate state of the art technologies and build/enhance next generation Artificial Intelligence platforms such as Kubernetes, Domino, AI processor platforms for several data driven initiatives within Verizon’s AI&D.

• Performing AI/ML platform overall architecture, design, development and implementation.
• Performing ML model implementation including auto-ML, model development workbench, model development life cycle, feature engineering, ML pipeline frameworks.
• Developing and support a platform that enables data scientists to rapidly develop, train, and experiment with machine learning models.
• Expanding and optimizing data pipelines, data flow, and collection for cross functional teams.
• Creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture by assembling large, complex data sets to meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Identifying and implement internal process improvements including automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Supporting the building of machine learning, data platforms, and infrastructure required for optimal data extraction, transformations, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
• Working with architecture, data, and design teams to assist with data related technical issues and support data infrastructure needs.
• Implementing Machine Learning (ML) and Big Data platforms in Hybrid and multi-cloud environment (AWS, GCP, CDPpreferred).
• Participating in application of these AI/ML platforms include various business functions such as service, sales, marketing etc.
• Buildng, test and deploy prototypes, models, feedback loops, and monitoring systems.
• Delivering solution in an agile fashion so that the AI models that are designed and developed are operational in a production environment as quickly as possible.
• Providing thought leadership in different steps of the model lifecycle.
• Developing and maintain a reference architecture, documentation, case study that relates to use-cases of the AI models.
• Acting as a change agent and advocate across the SOI organization for new technologies and methodologies that enable higher levels of business agility and operational excellence.
• Working with application teams to define requirements and recommend new solutions for the various end user applications and integration design patterns.
• Mentoring other junior employees, team members to ensure they become more proficient in understanding and developing AI-ML-NLP solutions.

This role is eligible to be considered for the Department of Defense SkillBridge Program.

Where you will be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems and / or related technical discipline or PhD in similar discipline would be even better.
• Experience in influencing industry trends and customer sentiment around new technology adoption.
• Experience in Information Architecture, Data warehouse/databases, Big data platforms, Data Visualization.
• Strong technical leadership skills.
• Knowledge of development, testing, infrastructure, operations, technical architecture, and corporate functions (e.g. security compliance, governance etc.).
• Experience in working with a globally distributed Software Development Team.
• Experience in JIRA, Confluence and/or other similar collaborative tools.
• Experience in managing projects working on AI/ML Platforms such as Tensor Flow, Open Source Machine Learning tools, Python, DataRobot, Google Analytics, H2O.
• Ability to work across multiple, diverse teams.
• Strong communication skills and experience aligning with Executive vision
• Hands-on experience in AI/ML/NLP Solution Design and Development, Model Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
• Solid engineering and coding skills with the ability to write high-performance production quality code.
• Experience in using languages such as Python, R, SQL, and Scala; Environments such as UNIX, Conda, Jupyter, and Hadoop ecosystem; Methodologies such as Agile, CICD, code repo, automation, scheduling, monitoring using JIRA, Gitlab, Jenkins, ESPX, New Relic, ML Flow, etc.
• Experience in Cloud computing with a focus on tools, technology, and development methods pertaining to Machine Learning, NLP/NLG.
• Knowledge of common families of machine learning models, feature engineering, feature selection and other practical machine learning issues, such as overfitting.
• Strong communication skills. Explaining complex technical concepts to product managers, data analysts, and other engineers shouldn’t be a problem for you.
• Proficiency in GSuite (Google Slides, Docs, etc) , or MS Office suite (Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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