Senior Machine Learning Architect

Senior Machine Learning Architect

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Machine Learning Architect to join the team in Seattle, WA; North Charleston, SC; Mesa, AZ; Plano, TX; or Ridley Park, PA. 

We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Machine Learning Architecture leader to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in leading, designing and implementing scalable machine learning systems and architectures that empower our organization to make informed, data-driven decisions. As a Machine Learning Architecture leader, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to thoroughly understand business requirements and translate them into high reliable solution designs. You will then lead highly scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions tailored to address specific business challenges. This role demands a deep understanding of cloud, data and machine learning technologies, along with a proven track record in developing repeatable and reusable architecture frameworks. Join us in shaping the future of our cloud and data strategy!

Position Responsibilities:

• Define the strategy to build highly reliable and scalable ML and AI solutions that align with the organization’s business goals and objectives

• Lead the creation and implementation of scalable, robust, and high-performance ML architectures including MLOps, AIOps leveraging cloud native services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and open-source frameworks

• Design, build, and optimize machine learning models, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability

• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, software developers, and DevOps teams to integrate ML models into production systems

• Assess and recommend ML tools, frameworks, and platforms to deliver business value and foster innovation

• Monitor and optimize ML models and systems for latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency in production

• Provide technical guidance to ML engineers and data scientists including documenting standards and best practices

• Ensure ML systems adhere to ethical guidelines, data privacy regulations, and industry standards

• Design and development of Generative AI and AI use cases (LLMs, RAG, Agentic, multi model AI, fine tuning. Vector databases and prompt engineering)

• Lead organizational change for the adoption of new platforms, machine learning tools and analytics workflows

• Own all communication and collaboration channels pertaining to strategy and assigned projects, including regular stakeholder, senior leadership and cross-team updates

• Establish working relationships with vendors (Technology and Consulting), partners and cross teams and holding them accountable

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher

• 10+ years of experience in Data or AI or Machine Learning related solution architecture roles

• 5+ years of experience in architecting scalable ML solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and other SAAS products like Databricks

• 5+ years of experience deploying, monitoring and managing ML systems in production environments

• 5+ years of experience with programming skills in Python, R, Java, or C++

• 3+ years of experience in AI & ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Langchain, Ray, MLFlow, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience in the manufacturing or aviation domain

• 5+ years of experience with big data technologies and data engineering practices

• Experience in multi-cloud and hybrid AI architectures

• Experience with generative AI, NLP, computer vision, or reinforcement learning

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices and containerized deployments

• Experience with fine-tuning and optimization approaches (LoRA / QLoRA, PEFT, parameter-efficient training), and cost/performance tradeoffs across CPU/GPU/accelerators

• Experience with open-source ML projects or publications in relevant fields

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base