TELUS Digital
Director, AI Forward Deployed Researcher
$211K–$264K
Remote, US +4 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Location
- Remote, US
Boston, MA
Charlottesville, VA
Durham, NC
Columbus, OH - Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering and AI/ML experience; 4+ years in senior leadership or management roles.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field.
About the job
Leads applied AI research and client-embedded production implementations, advises enterprise executives on AI strategy, and manages Forward Deployed Researchers and Engineers.
What you'll do
- Advise client executives on AI strategy, roadmaps, and research-backed implementation plans.
- Lead applied research and end-to-end delivery of production AI systems for enterprise clients.
- Manage, mentor, and grow Forward Deployed teams while developing reusable practices and frameworks.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering and AI/ML experience with production systems.
- 4+ years in senior leadership or management roles managing technical teams of at least 5+ professionals.
- Deep expertise in frontier GenAI/LLMs, including RAG, agentic systems, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.
- Hands-on proficiency with cloud platforms and modern AI/ML frameworks; bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or related field.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field).
- Experience in regulated industries or at AI research/platform companies.
Pay
$211K – $264K (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, Hugging Face
AI focus
Frontier applied AI research and enterprise production delivery, including GenAI/LLMs, advanced RAG, multi-agent systems, fine-tuning, synthetic data, RLHF, evaluation, and MLOps.
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