Director Engineering - Artificial Intelligence

Cotiviti

76d • $200,000 - $240,000

About The Position

The Director of Engineering AI will drive our AI Platform design across all lines of business. The Director will be responsible for the development and execution of the AI platform and machine learning applications that will empower Cotiviti's Product Groups to deliver innovative AI-powered experiences to our customers.

Requirements

• MS or Ph.D. in quantitative domain (CS + Computational Physics/Math’s).
• 10+ years of machine learning and data science experience in high velocity, high-growth companies.
• 5+ years of management experience hiring and developing AI/ML teams.
• An innovative background with patents and publications in Tier1/2 journals and conferences.
• Experience with large-language models (LLMs) a big plus.
• Experience building and leading expert machine learning teams that have routinely launched new products and features, driving significant revenue.
• Comprehensive technical background, spanning multiple areas including software/systems engineering, machine learning, and computational physics/math with GPU based systems.
• Experience developing machine learning products and capabilities in a cloud environment.
• Strong communication skills to explain and evangelize machine learning to executives and the senior management team.
• Bias to action and passion for delivering high-quality data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Driven with sense of urgency and vision for AI, Advanced Statistics, LLM/VectorDB design across all lines of business.
• Enthusiastic and have advanced knowledge and know-how of latest and greatest in AI.
• Build machine learning foundation and deliver AI/ML projects through the entire development lifecycle.
• Extract and transform business requirements into trackable requirements, success criteria, and deliver large-scale machine learning models/services into production.
• Work with product and infrastructure teams on how applied machine learning can make their product or system better.
• Grow and expand expertise and team with an eye toward diverse and forward-looking skills that span advanced statistics, AI/Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Probabilistic and Generative AI.
• Ability to define and connect the product end to end, enabling conceptualization, development and production.
• Represent Cotiviti at academic and industrial conferences & events.
• Hire, develop, coach, lead and retain top-tier talent, with a focus on building and improving a team and culture that is able to assist in employing best in class practices to support and drive high levels of internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Just be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• 401(k) savings plans.
• Paid family leave.
• 9 paid holidays per year.
• 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees