[Hiring] Principal ML/AI Engineer @White Cap

Role Description

Responsible for serving as the Data Science team's senior technical leader and subject matter expert for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This role involves:

• Designing, developing, and operationalizing machine learning and AI solutions that address the organization's most complex business challenges.
• Establishing technical standards and architectural direction for the team.
• Accelerating delivery, elevating engineering quality, and strengthening team capabilities through hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in a related field OR MS/MA and generally 8+ years of experience in a related field.
• Maintains expert knowledge in area of responsibility with a strong understanding in adjacent areas for the development of creative solutions.
• Advanced degree in computer science (preferred).
• Strong ability to summarize and communicate technical challenges and solutions effectively.

Requirements

• Serves as the principal engineering authority for enterprise-grade systems supporting data science, machine learning, and AI in Azure and Databricks.
• Sets the technical direction and architectural patterns for production solutions that are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable.
• Leads the architecture and hands-on development of applications, services, APIs, and reusable components.
• Designs systems to scale across users, datasets, models, and business processes.
• Establishes engineering practices for deploying, operating, and monitoring ML/AI solutions in production.
• Defines and enforces software engineering standards for teams building systems in support of data science.
• Leads architecture, design, and code reviews covering code quality, modularity, testing, documentation, security, and maintainability.
• Mentors engineers supporting data science and AI initiatives.
• Partners with data scientists, data engineers, product teams, enterprise architects, information security, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
• Translates analytical requirements into engineering designs and communicates technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs clearly.

Company Description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities. The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable.