Axon is hiring a Director of Artificial Intelligence to lead machine learning platform initiatives for Dedrone. In this role, you will harness sensor and data networks to deliver differentiated outcomes for public safety customers. You will define strategic opportunities, grow a world-class ML Platform engineering team, and collaborate across engineering, science, and product to ship and operate services at scale.
What You'll Do
- Operate as a thought leader, guiding and inspiring peak performance, innovation, and adoption of the latest engineering practices to enable AI technologies across Axon.
- Grow and lead a world-class team of machine learning platform engineers delivering novel, strategic AI-enabled solutions.
- Collaborate with science, tech, and product teams on defining, architecting, and building data ingestion systems and model training pipelines from experimentation to deployment.
- Challenge existing assumptions and introduce new distributed system architectures including high-throughput ML training pipelines and low-latency model hosting technologies.
- Develop a collaborative and inclusive team that fosters a culture of ownership, experimentation, and innovation while partnering with product teams to deliver solutions for customers.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience and a proven track record of successfully architecting and building highly available, low latency systems for high traffic applications.
- 6+ years in a leadership/management role with a solid track record of building and leading engineering teams.
- Fluency in Scala (or Java) as well as prior experience working with machine learning workflows in python.
- Designed and built multiple complex, scalable, high throughput, low latency streaming/batch processing machine learning pipelines for both data flows and algorithm execution.
- Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with major cloud environments (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud).
- Exemplary problem solving skills and ability to dive into system architecture, design, performance metrics, code, test plans, project plans, deployments and operations.
- Comfort communicating and interacting with scientists, engineers and product managers.
Nice to Have
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping data science AI enabled products.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with machine learning platforms from major providers (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud).
- Experience with IoT/Edge AI and optimizing ML pipelines to run on-device with constrained compute, power and latency budgets.
- Previous experience leading multiple geographically distributed teams.
Technical Stack
- Scala
- Java
- Python
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
Team & Environment
This is a critical member of the Dedrone Leadership team, reporting to the VP of Engineering for Dedrone.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave for all
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Fitness Programs
- Emotional & Mental Wellness support
- Learning & Development programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Snacks in our offices
- Compensation: $204,000 — $326,400 USD
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Seattle, WA, or Sterling, VA.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
