3 months ago
Base Salary
$164k - $236k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive UKG’s generative AI architecture strategy and integrate GenAI capabilities across products.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership in transformer models, diffusion models, GANs, and scalable AI/ML system design.
- Partner with executive leadership, product management, data science, and engineering teams to prioritize AI initiatives.
- Conduct advanced generative AI research and implement state-of-the-art techniques.
- Mentor senior engineering leaders and establish best practices for AI/ML development, MLOps, CI/CD, and quality assurance.
- Represent UKG through AI publications, speaking engagements, and industry forums.
- Oversee the deployment and optimization of large-scale AI models for production performance, cost, and resource efficiency.
- Define AI development methodologies, CI/CD standards, architectural guidelines, documentation, and technical roadmaps.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software development and AI, including at least five years of hands-on experience in generative AI, NLP, or related fields.
- Proven experience architecting and deploying large-scale AI/ML systems in production.
- Expertise in Python, Java, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
- Strong understanding of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and MLOps practices for large-scale model training and deployment.
- Deep knowledge of transformer models, diffusion models, GANs, large language models, multimodal architectures, NLP, and machine learning algorithms.
- Recognized AI thought leadership with publications in top-tier conferences or journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, or CVPR.
- Experience influencing and implementing long-term AI strategy and solving complex technical problems.
- Preferred experience with high-compliance environments, privacy-preserving AI, responsible AI, model interpretability, ethical AI, model compression, knowledge distillation, and efficient deployment.
- Preferred experience with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
Benefits
- The role includes UKG benefits and rewards, with eligibility for a performance-based bonus plan and restricted stock unit awards in addition to base pay.
- UKG is unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
- A different pay range applies to the Seattle, Washington area.
- UKG provides disability accommodation during the application and interview process and is an equal opportunity employer.
Categories
AI ResearchML Engineering
About UKG
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.