Vice President, Machine Learning Engineering

$220,000 - $280,000/Yr

Clarivate - Philadelphia, PA

Full-time - Senior

Philadelphia, PA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Vice President of Machine Learning Engineering at Clarivate will lead the AI Product Transformation team, 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 code and 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 collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic goals.
• Ability to take ownership of critical problems from debugging to project delivery.

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 with current commercial LLMs like GPT-4.
• Experience designing software for the life science industry.

Benefits

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