Executive Director - Applied Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

As an Applied AI/ML Executive Director within our dynamic team, you will apply your quantitative, data science, and analytical skills to complex problems. As a Machine Learning Director, you will have the opportunity to apply sophisticated machine learning methods to complex tasks including natural language processing, speech analytics, time series, reinforcement learning and recommendation systems. You will collaborate with various teams and actively participate in our knowledge sharing community. We are looking for someone who excels in a highly collaborative environment, working together with our business, technologists and control partners to deploy solutions into production. If you have a strong passion for machine learning and enjoy investing time towards learning, researching and experimenting with new innovations in the field, this role is for you.

Job responsibilities

• Develop advanced agentic AI solutions involving structured and unstructed data, casual analytics, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and optimization.

• Design robust agent architectures combining LLM reasoning with tools, structured data, and APIs spanning state, memory, and context management, plus loop engineering (plan/act/observe, verification, termination, and fallback/escalation).

• Engineer reliable agent-driven workflows emphasizing correctness, traceability, and control-aware behavior (guardrails, approvals, auditable decision paths).

• Build knowledge-centric reasoning layers, including knowledge graphs and hybrid retrieval (RAG + graph + structured sources) to improve grounding and accuracy.

• Drive specification-driven development: author specs and contracts (schemas, validators, tool/skill interfaces) and build evaluation/regression harnesses.

• Advance agent quality via recursive self-improvement through automated evaluation and critique loops, red-team feedback, skill/prompt instruction optimization, and outcome-driven dataset curation (human-in-the-loop as needed).

• Coach and mentor AI/ML team members, setting a high bar for engineering rigor and research depth.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization, or Data Science Or with at least 5 years of industry experience or an MS with at least 7 years of industry or research experience in the field.

• Extensive experience with machine learning and deep learning toolkits (e.g.: TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas)

• Ability to design experiments and training frameworks, and to outline and evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic metrics for model performance aligned with business goals

• Experience with big data and scalable model training and solid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences.

• Scientific thinking with the ability to invent and to work both independently and in highly collaborative team environments

• Solid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences. Curious, hardworking and detail-oriented, and motivated by complex analytical problems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities , and skills:

• Strong background in Mathematics and Statistics and familiarity with the financial services industries and continuous integration models and unit test development

• Knowledge in search/ranking, Reinforcement Learning or Meta Learning

• Experience with A/B experimentation and data/metric-driven product development, cloud-native deployment in a large scale distributed environment and ability to develop and debug production-quality code

• Published research in areas of Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Reinforcement Learning at a major conference or journal