Rocket
Technical Director - ML & Algorithms
United States · Director
Sponsorship not specified$161k-$225kDetected 6 days ago
PythonJavaAlgorithmsMachine LearningSparkStatisticsForecastingLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
- Rocket is seeking a Technical Leader to join its AI Center of Excellence (AI COE) and shape the machine learning and algorithmic foundations of its mainframe operational analytics products.
- This role is deeply grounded in operations and telemetry with a focus on extracting signal from high-volume, high-fidelity sources such as SMF, RMF, log streams, workload metrics, and system events.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement advanced algorithms and statistical models for anomaly detection, pattern analysis, forecasting, optimization, classification, and modernization insights.
- Collaborate closely with domain experts in mainframe operations, performance, security, and data platforms to translate deep system knowledge into scalable, data-driven intelligence.
- Lead across reporting boundaries by influence and technical credibility rather than hierarchy, helping teams solve complex problems at all stages of feature development and delivery.
- Partner with Product and Architecture leadership to shape long-term strategy for operational analytics, AI-assisted modernization, and analytics platform evolution.
- Engage with enterprise customers to understand real-world operational and analytical constraints and validate ML-driven solutions.
- Strong background in large datasets, distributed processing, and end-to-end ML system design.
- Experience building ML or analytics solutions tied to system behavior, performance, observability, or operational telemetry.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, ML systems, or advanced algorithm development.
- Proven experience owning and delivering ML or algorithmic systems into production at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across teams and organizations through technical leadership and influence.
- Track record of mentoring senior technical talent and working as a player-coach.
- Strong experience with mainframe systems and data sources such as z/OS, SMF, RMF, Db2, RACF, or mainframe performance analytics.
- Experience with analytics databases or in-database ML systems, including model training, evaluation, and execution close to data.
- Familiarity with regression, classification, clustering, and time-series techniques used in production analytics systems.
- Experience designing explainable, auditable, or compliance-aware ML solutions.
- Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks or ML platforms such as Spark, Flink, Ray, or cloud ML pipelines.
Compensation
- Annual salary range for this position is between $161,000.00 - $225,400.00 gross before taxes.
Benefits
- Define and lead Rocket's machine learning and algorithmic strategy across Infra, App and Data modernization business lines.
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time
Visa & Work Authorization
- is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status
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