Axon is seeking a Director of Artificial Intelligence to join the Dedrone leadership team, reporting to the VP of Engineering for Dedrone. You will lead machine learning platform initiatives, harnessing Dedrone's sensor network and data to deliver differentiated outcomes for public safety customers. Your role will involve identifying strategic opportunities, and defining, growing, leading, and retaining a world-class team of ML Platform engineers.
What You'll Do
- Operate as a thought leader and visionary, guiding and inspiring peak performance and innovation in AI technologies.
- Grow and lead a world-class team of machine learning platform engineers delivering strategic AI-enabled solutions.
- Collaborate with science, tech, and product teams on defining, architecting, and building data ingestion systems and model training pipelines.
- Introduce new distributed system architectures including high-throughput ML training pipelines and low-latency model hosting technologies.
- Develop a collaborative and inclusive team fostering a culture of ownership, experimentation, and innovation.
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.
- 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
You will be 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.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position. Offices are located in Seattle, WA and 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.
