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We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead Manager/Engineering Manager to grow out and lead a forward-deployed team of Machine learning engineers who will be building applications for a graphically intensive simulation platform. This role will serve as the central facilitator for platform director requests for engineers with technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management: Steward the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of the platform-deployed machine learning applications.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the primary point of contact between the customers and ML engineers, translating technical requirements from different gaming-adjacent domains to Machine Learning.
• Product Prioritization: Exhibit strong judgement in when to deploy off-the-shelf commercial solutions, customize open-source solutions, or initiate greenfield applied science research projects based on product needs.

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead/Engineering Manager in a customer facing AI/ML team with a consulting mindset.
• Prior experience in industries with complex multi-disciplinary teams such as robotics, smart grids, precision agriculture, game development or aerospace.
• Prior experience having a team of around 10 direct reports, establishing ways of working, and developing them to be high performing.
• High attention to detail and conscientiousness.
• Ability to translate customer requests and turn them into actionable technical requirement documents in collaboration with ML engineers.
• Fluency with the entire machine learning lifecycle, including infrastructure for data, training and deployment.
• Background with visual computing, and game engines and real-time 3D rendering is preferred.
• Familiarity with Python, Git, PyTorch and the Unix shell is preferred.
• Familiarity with collaborative tools such as Jira/Confluence, Slack, a Git server, an experiment tracking framework, a data dashboard.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Adaptive or Lean methodologies.
• Agile or Scrum certifications.
• Familiarity with AWS and ETL orchestration.
• Graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Data Science/Visual Computing or other related field.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $245,000-$270,000 (bonus eligible). 

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