Basic Qualifications

- PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science 10+ years of combined academic and research experience.
- Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences.
- Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions.
- Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.
- Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.
- Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, etc..).
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building and deploying innovative machine learning solutions at scale for minimum 10 years.
- Expert level skills across many Machine Learning methodologies.
- Published research work in academic conferences or industry circles.
- Experience delivering complex end-to-end global ML solutions that run at very large scale.
- Experience working with real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.
- Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution.
- Exhibits excellent business judgment; balances business, product, and technology very well.
- This technical leader for machine learning will be an independent thinker who can make convincing, information-based arguments.
- With a strong bias for action, this individual will work equally well with science, engineering, economics and business teams.
- This person will have very sound judgment and be able to recruit and develop high calibre talent.