5 days ago
Base Salary
$250k - $289k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development of WEX ’s AI/ML engineering technology and platform, ensuring reliability, performance, flexibility, and functional richness.
- Design the architecture and lead implementation of AI/ML infrastructure, platforms, applications, and services.
- Drive the technical vision, strategy, roadmaps, project plans, and commitments for AI/ML infrastructure.
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, security, SRE, architecture, and business teams on integrations and technical solutions.
- Ensure data security and privacy through appropriate encryption and access controls.
- Evaluate external technologies and vendors that support WEX’s AI/ML strategy.
- Establish quality goals, monitor development and operational performance, and uphold security requirements, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and OKRs.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, training, and strategic leadership to engineers and engineering leaders.
- Advise senior leadership on complex technical and business initiatives and lead teams through execution.
Requirements
- 15–20 years of software design and development experience at large scale.
- Strong software development skills and willingness to program in Java and Python.
- Experience building supervised and unsupervised machine learning models; reinforcement learning experience is preferred.
- Experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Ray and Spark.
- Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Experience with cloud architecture and services including S3, EMR, Kubernetes, and Lambda; AWS and Azure experience is highly desirable.
- Experience with SageMaker and LLM models is preferred.
- Hands-on experience across architecture, development, deployment, production operations, monitoring, automation, quality, and the full software development lifecycle.
- Deep experience with big data, large-scale data platforms, AI, and ML.
- Strong experience with CI/CD automation and leading engineering teams through modern development practices.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder-management, and mentoring skills.
- Payment-organization experience is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; a higher related degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement and additional benefits.
- The role can be based in San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Portland, Maine, or Boston.
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About WEX
WEX is a public financial technology company that provides corporate payment solutions to fleets, healthcare/benefits administrators, and travel businesses. Its products include fuel and mobility cards, virtual card payments, and platforms for HSAs/FSAs/HRAs, with revenue from payment processing and software/service fees. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, WEX trades on the NYSE under WEX and was formerly known as Wright Express.