Blend360 LLC
Director, AI Engineering (Data Science)
Columbia, MD, United States · Director
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$4,413 more — $184,413 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $184,413 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Data Scientists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Data Scientists (15-2051) · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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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.
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.
- Define technical investments with business objectives
- Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and model governance frameworks across the AI org.
- Oversee adaptation and fine-tuning of foundation models (BERT, T5, TabTransformer, LLMs) for proprietary client datasets, ensuring domain-specific performance.
Skills
- Exceptional executive communication skills-able to translate complex model behavior into business language for C-suite and client audiences.
Compensation
- $180k-$240k
Company info
- We are seeking a visionary and execution-oriented Director of AI Engineering to join our team.
This listing is sourced directly from Blend360 LLC's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.