Director, Machine Learning

Location: United States, remote

Salary: $240,000–$400,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a specialist executive search firm focused on leaders who help organizations navigate AI transformation.

What you will do

• Own the ML engineering roadmap and strategy, translating business objectives into technical priorities and timelines.
• Build, mentor, and lead ML engineering teams, including hiring, capability development, performance management, and career growth.
• Design and oversee ML architecture, model development, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and engineering best practices.
• Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to integrate ML capabilities into reliable production systems at scale.
• Improve ML engineering processes, tooling, and infrastructure to accelerate time-to-value and reduce technical debt.
• Communicate ML capabilities, limitations, and outcomes to stakeholders and executive leadership while establishing responsible AI standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in machine learning, data science, or AI engineering.
• At least 3 years in a leadership or staff/principal engineer role.
• Experience building and shipping production ML systems with measurable business impact.
• Experience leading and growing engineering teams, setting technical direction, and developing ML culture and capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of model training, evaluation, feature engineering, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Familiarity with MLOps pipelines, containerization, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent remote work from the United States.
• Opportunity to lead ML transformation initiatives across organizations.