Director Engineering - Artificial Intelligence

Cotiviti is a company focused on innovative AI solutions, and they are seeking a Director of Engineering for their AI Platform. The role involves driving AI platform design, developing machine learning applications, and leading a team to deliver AI-powered experiences across various product lines.

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

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
• Enthusiastic and driven with a sense of urgency and vision for AI, Advanced Statistics, LLM/VectorDB design
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on delivering high-impact, high-quality solutions