Director of Machine Learning

Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between.

At Caylent, our people always come first.  We are a global company and operate fully remote with employees in Canada, the United States, and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien

Role Overview

You will lead a 6-10 person team of people leaders, overseeing ML engineers, architects, and consultants to deliver cutting-edge AI/ML solutions on AWS. You will drive practice strategy, technical innovation, and operational excellence, while building high-value partnerships with AWS and scaling the practice for growth.

This role demands a leader who is as comfortable shaping consulting offerings and go-to-market initiatives as they are diving deep into the technical stack to guide solution architecture, MLOps strategy, and large-scale ML deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery Excellence: Oversee execution of complex AI/ML engagements across industries, ensuring on-time delivery, customer satisfaction, and AWS Well-Architected compliance.
• Strategic Leadership: Define the vision, roadmap, and operating model for the AI/ML practice aligned with company objectives and AWS innovations.
• Practice Development: Build and mature the consulting practice through development of offerings, accelerators, delivery frameworks, and knowledge management.
• Technical Oversight: Serve as an executive-level technical authority — guiding architecture decisions, reviewing high-impact designs, and ensuring use of best practices in ML engineering and MLOps.
• Business Growth: Partner with sales, alliances, and AWS field teams to drive pipeline, co-sell initiatives, and joint customer success stories.
• Talent & Culture: Attract, mentor, and retain top technical and consulting talent, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and delivery excellence

Technical Focus Areas & Core Stack

• AWS ML & Data Services: SageMaker, Bedrock, Glue, EMR, S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM
• Infrastructure & Automation: Docker, Git, MLFlow, CI/CD pipelines
• ML Frameworks & Libraries: PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Keras, HF Transformers, Triton, TorchServe, DJL
• Data Processing & Distributed Compute: Pandas, Polars, DASK, Ray
• Generative AI: Model fine-tuning, RAG pipelines

Qualifications

• Consulting Leadership: 10+ years of consulting/professional services experience, with at least 5 years leading AI/ML or data practices
• Deep AWS Expertise: Proven track record architecting and delivering enterprise-scale ML solutions using AWS services (SageMaker, Bedrock, Glue, EMR, etc.).

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Private Health Insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

NOTE: We're unable to provide visa sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

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Caylent is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at Caylent.  

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