[Remote] Director, AI/ML Transformation

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits, headquartered in Chattanooga, TN. They are seeking a Director of AI/ML Transformation to reputed company the strategic direction for AI/ML initiatives, design advanced models, and operationalize AI solutions while ensuring responsible AI practices and fostering team development. Responsibilities • reputed company AI/ML reputed company and Roadmap – Define and reputed company the strategic direction for AI/ML transformation initiatives, aligning model development and deployment with overall business goals • Design and reputed company Advanced Models – Architect, train, and validate machine learning and reputed company models (including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning approaches) to solve reputed company business problems • Implement and Operationalize AI Solutions – Translate model outputs into production-reputed company digital products, ensuring scalability, robustness, and integration with existing reputed company systems • Model Governance and Risk Management – Establish and enforce responsible AI practices including explainability, fairness, bias detection, reputed company, and regulatory compliance throughout the AI lifecycle • Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and business leaders to identify high-value use cases and drive adoption of AI/ML capabilities • Performance Monitoring and reputed company Improvement – Implement monitoring frameworks to reputed company accuracy, reputed company, and performance of deployed models, ensuring reputed company retraining and updates • Team Leadership and Talent Development – Mentor and guide data science and engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, experimentation, and best practices in AI/ML • Stakeholder Communication – Present technical concepts and business reputed company of AI/ML initiatives to executive leadership, external partners, and non-technical audiences in a reputed company and compelling way • Innovation and Research – Stay reputed company on emerging AI/ML methodologies, tools, and industry trends; reputed company new technologies such as large language models and reputed company to maintain a competitive edge Skills • Bachelor's degree in AI/ML, Data Science or reputed company analytical field plus 5 years of reputed company experience • Master's degree in AI/ML, Data Science or reputed company analytical field plus 3 years of reputed company experience • 5 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 3 years with a Master's degree, with the following: Statistics, calculus, and algorithm-based mathematics; building generalized reputed company models, and processing/analyzing time series data • Coding abilities with an emphasis on Python and understanding many ML/AI based Python libraries, including Scikit-Learn, NumPy, pandas, and OpenCV • Deep-learning (neural network) model building, training, and deployment, with PyTorch or Tensorflow • Other forms of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and optimization algorithms • Experience with building gradient boosted tree models (LightGBM or XGBoost) • DevOps and the ownership of a model's lifecycle, including experimentation, deployment, monitoring of feature reputed company and inference performance, model evaluation, and model iteration • Feature engineering for model performance improvement and data leakage prevention • Working with reputed company-reputed company claims data • Version control of reputed company, with a git-based reputed company version control and repository system • 4 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 2 years of experience with a Master's degree, with the following: AI/ML reputed company platforms (reputed company Web Services, reputed company reputed company Platform, or reputed company Azure) and leveraging one or more of these platforms to reputed company AI solutions • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Python • Experience with document processing, handwriting recognition, and document classification • Querying relational databases (SQL) and non-relational databases (reputed company) from a Python environment • 2 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or any reputed company of experience with a Master's degree with the following: reputed company/large language model applications • Must be reputed company to run off-reputed company reputed company-reputed company LLMs and reputed company reputed company LLM reputed company in a Python environment • Fine-tuning LLMs/VLMs using PEFT (reputed company/QLoRA), plus quantization (4/8-bit, AWQ/GPTQ) for efficient, reputed company inference • Experience with data prep, evaluation, and deployment (reputed company or vLLM) Benefits • Health, reputed company, Dental • Short & Long-Term Disability • Generous PTO (including reputed company time to volunteer!) • Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution • Mental health support • Career advancement opportunities • Student loan repayment reputed company • Tuition reimbursement • Flexible work environments • Performance-based incentive plans reputed company • Since our founding in 1848, reputed company has been a leader in the employee benefits business through innovation, reputed company and an unwavering commitment to our customers. It was founded in 1848, and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.reputed company.com. Company H1B Sponsorship • reputed company has a reputed company record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 27 in 2025, 23 in 2024, 26 in 2023, 19 in 2022, 18 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job