Principal AI/ML Engineer

Akkodis is seeking a Principal AI/ML Engineer direct job with a client in Boston, MA. Must hold a Bachelor's degree to be considered. You will challenge the status quo and hold a high bar to drive for better and better technical solutions to effectively serve all the needs in the broad risk area of the org. You will also partner with the security org and SRE org to ensure continuous improvement and meeting of security requirements, SLOs, and error budget.

Rate Range: $165/k. to $220/k. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Principal AI/ML Engineer job responsibilities include:

• Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's AI/ML engineering needs, ensure the functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of this platform
• Help design the architecture and lead the implementation of the AI/ML infrastructure, platform and services.
• Guide your team to leverage data and/or AI technology or tools in your design and development for high productivity and better solution quality. Show strong thought leadership and influence your peers in this area.
• Closely partner with the other senior engineers across the organizations the organization to deeply understand the business needs and jointly come up with technical solutions to serve these needs effectively. Demonstrate strong thought leadership and partnership.
• Partner closely with information security teams to ensure the security and privacy of data, implementing encryption and access controls as required.
• Partner with solutions architecture and LOB product and engineering orgs on integrations of the AI/ML Platform with their products/systems, and ensure reliable and performed execution.
• Engage with external partners and vendors to evaluate technologies and services that complement the company’s AI/ML strategy.
• Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
• Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management and partners.
• Drive the technical vision and strategy of AI/ML infrastructure to serve the business needs for the near term and long term. A close partnership with the Data Science and ML Engineering teams and the operational reporting teams of applications
• Set a high bar and provide technical guidance and effective training & mentorship to the engineering teams in your group, including engineering principles, skills, and best practices. Uphold strong DORA metrics across the org. Foster an environment of continuous learning and innovation. Build an inclusive, productive, innovative, and engaging Risk group, including attracting high talents from the industry.
• Guide the leaders in your group to do the same.
• Advise Senior Leadership team on highly complex situations that impact our organization and then lead teams through the initiative, driving excellent quality results and achieving defined OKRs across the organization.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Minimum 15 years related experience.
• Strong software development skills in his or her chosen programming language, but ready and willing to learn and program in Java and Python.
• Demonstrable experience in Kubernetes and Terraform
• Broad understanding of distributed computing frameworks like Ray and Spark
• Broad understanding of cloud architecture tools and services, such as S3, EMR, Lambda functions.
• Hands-on in architecture design, development, deployment, and production operation; familiar with agile software development and modern development tools and frameworks; holding strong engineering principles including automation and quality as well as best practices with a high bar. Extensive experience in full software development life cycle E2E including in production monitoring.
• Rich experience and deep expertise in the areas of Big Data and large scale data platforms, especially in AI and ML.
• Highly experienced and deep understanding of CI/CD automation.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at 585-490-8656 or gina.manioci@akkodis.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance