Blend360 LLC

Blend360 LLC

Director, AI Engineering (Data Science)

Columbia, MD, United States · Director

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$240kDetected 90 days ago
PythonCode ReviewSQLBigQuerySnowflakeAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDKafkaMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnSparkData EngineeringData ScienceNLPLLMsMLOps

About the role

  • Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people.
  • The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy.
  • We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients.

Responsibilities

  • feature engineering, statistical modeling, causal inference, and experimental design across large-scale datasets.
  • Demonstrated ability to build strategic partnerships with external clients, contributing to revenue growth or account expansion through technical leadership.
  • Experience building custom transformer models

Nice to have

  • Professional services experience across multiple client engagements or business units
  • Knowledge of graph neural networks (GNNs) for social graph or network topology analysis in telecom contexts.
  • Experience with real-time inference and streaming ML pipelines (Kafka, Flink, or similar).
  • Deep experience with openai focused on embeddings
  • It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance.
  • Establish production standards for model deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining across cloud platforms (AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, Azure ML).
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a closely related quantitative field
  • Ph.D. strongly preferred.

Skills

  • Define technical investments with business objectives
  • Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and model governance frameworks across the AI org.
  • Present AI strategy, model results, and roadmap updates to C-suite and senior client stakeholders with clarity and executive presence.
  • Exceptional executive communication skills-able to translate complex model behavior into business language for C-suite and client audiences.

Compensation

  • $180k-$240k

Benefits

  • Published research or conference contributions (NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, RecSys, or industry equivalents) related to applied transformers, tabular deep learning, or domain-specific AI.

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