- Company Name
- Caylent
- Job Title
- Director of Machine Learning
- Job Description
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**Job title:** Director of Machine Learning
**Role Summary:**
Lead a 6‑10 person practice of ML engineers, architects, and consultants to design, build, and deliver enterprise‑scale AI/ML solutions on AWS. Drive practice strategy, technical innovation, and operational excellence while partnering with sales, alliances, and AWS teams to grow the pipeline and client success.
**Expactations:**
- Steering a high‑performing ML practice from vision to execution.
- Demonstrating deep technical expertise and consulting leadership with measurable business impact.
- Building scalable go‑to‑market offerings, accelerators, and delivery frameworks.
- Cultivating a culture of continuous learning, mentorship, and customer-centric delivery.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of complex AI/ML engagements ensuring on‑time, on‑budget, Well‑Architected compliance.
- Define vision, roadmap, and operating model for the AI/ML practice.
- Develop and mature consulting offerings, accelerators, and knowledge management.
- Provide executive‑level technical guidance: architecture decisions, high‑impact design reviews, ML engineering standards, and MLOps best practices.
- Partner with sales, alliances, and AWS field teams to generate pipeline, co‑sell, and create joint success stories.
- Recruit, mentor, and retain top technical and consulting talent.
**Required Skills:**
- 10+ years in consulting/professional services, 5+ years leading AI/ML or data practices.
- Proven architect/deployer of enterprise‑scale ML solutions on AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, Glue, EMR, EC2, Lambda, IAM, S3).
- Deep knowledge of Docker, Git, CI/CD, MLFlow, MLOps pipelines.
- Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Keras, Hugging Face Transformers, Triton, TorchServe, DJL.
- Experience in Pandas, Polars, DASK, Ray, distributed compute, data processing, generative‑AI fine‑tuning, RAG pipelines.
- Strong leadership, communication, and partnership skills.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty (or equivalent).
- Relevant MLOps or Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).