Director | Engineering, ML
Job in
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 28201, USA
Listing for:
machinifyinc
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-15
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Lead an engineering team responsible for building and operating a production AI and machine learning platform. The role combines hands-on technical direction, team development, and coordination with data science and product partners to turn experiments into dependable services that can serve multiple use cases at scale.
Responsibilities- Lead and grow the ML engineering team, coordinating delivery with data scientists and other contributors.
- Design, build, and operate platform capabilities such as agent frameworks, evaluation tools, labeling workflows, document processing, semantic search, knowledge bases, and model hosting.
- Establish production practices for reliability, observability, performance, and incident response.
- Create processes that help translate data science prototypes into maintainable production services.
- Partner with AI and product leadership on platform and product direction, clarifying ambiguous problems and surfacing risks early.
- Plan capacity and delivery across engineering and data science, and encourage effective use of AI tools in development, reviews, testing, and operations.
- At least five years managing engineering teams of roughly eight or more, with hands‑on technical leadership.
- Eight or more years of backend engineering experience as an individual contributor.
- At least three years building production AI or ML services at scale across multiple use cases, working closely with data science and engineering.
- Strong experience in a backend language such as Java, Scala, or Rust, as well as Python.
- Understanding of the workflows, model serving, observability, reliability, and scaling needs of AI/ML platforms.
- Enough fluency in data science concepts to partner with data science leadership, plus clear communication and comfort working through ambiguity.
- Computer science degree or equivalent experience.
- Healthcare industry experience.
Work from anywhere in the United States in a digital-first environment.
- Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, FSA/HSA options, tuition reimbursement, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, wellness benefits, and equity.
Compensation varies with experience, skills, and level.
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