Vice President, Machine Learning Engineering

$220,000 - $280,000/Yr

Clarivate - Chandler, AZ

Full-time - Senior

Chandler, AZ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Vice President of Machine Learning Engineering will lead the AI Product Transformation team at Clarivate, focusing on identifying and implementing high-leverage AI opportunities within the life sciences portfolio. This role combines technical leadership with strategic oversight, requiring collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive AI initiatives that align with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Identify highest leverage AI implementation opportunities across the Clarivate life sciences portfolio.
• Assist in communicating AI investment and growth opportunities to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), CEO, and potentially the Board of Directors.
• Formulate, communicate, and lead iteration of implementation approaches to achieve AI project goals.
• Hire, lead, and manage a diverse, high-performing engineering team to execute against these goals.
• Work closely with individual product owners and biologists to understand workflows, constraints, business value, and opportunities.
• Spend extensive time analyzing data and contributing meaningful amounts of code and/or documentation.
• Mentor and develop a team of junior engineers and data scientists.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent applicable experience).
• 8+ years of industry experience and 2+ years in engineering management.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, data preprocessing, and model evaluation.
• Experience working with current commercial LLMs like GPT-4.
• Ability to take ownership and responsibility for critical problems end-to-end.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or related field.
• Past experience in delivering working ML/AI products.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and product owners.
• Experience designing software for the life science industry.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance