AI Principal Engineer

🕒 July 9

🏄 California, Illinois, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $250.3k - $289k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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WEX

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1983

🚗 Transport

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 $310M Post-IPO Debt on 2020-06

Transport • Finance • Fintech

WEX is a global commerce platform specializing in various business solutions to address operational challenges. They provide services in managing and mobilizing fleets with their fuel card systems, offering comprehensive fleet management and analytics. Additionally, they focus on business payments solutions that streamline processes across industries, enhancing efficiency and security. WEX is also involved in employee benefits administration, helping organizations effectively manage health and reimbursement accounts. Their diverse range of services caters to numerous sectors, emphasizing innovation, sustainability, and effective solutions for business growth.

📋 Description

• Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's AI/ML engineering needs, ensure the functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of this platform • Help design the architecture and lead the implementation of the AI/ML infrastructure, platform and services • Challenge the status quo and hold a high bar to drive for better and better technical solutions to effectively serve all the needs in the broad risk area of Wex • Guide your team to leverage data and/or AI technology or tools in your design and development for high productivity and better solution quality • Show strong thought leadership and influence your peers in this area • Closely partner with the other senior engineers across the organizations at Wex to deeply understand the business needs and jointly come up with technical solutions to serve these needs effectively • Partner with information security teams to ensure the security and privacy of data, implementing encryption and access controls as required • Partner with solutions architecture and LOB product and engineering orgs on integrations of the AI/ML Platform with their products/systems, and ensure reliable and performed execution • Engage with external partners and vendors to evaluate technologies and services that complement the company’s AI/ML strategy • Create, prioritize, communicate, manage, and execute roadmaps, project plans, and commitments • Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management and partners • Drive the technical vision and strategy of AI/ML infrastructure to serve the business needs for the near term and long term

🎯 Requirements

• 15-20 years of software design and development experience at large scale • Strong software development skills in his or her chosen programming language, but ready and willing to learn and program in Java and Python • Good experience in building machine learning supervised and unsupervised models • Experience in Reinforcement Learning is a plus • Experience in using LLM models a plus • Broad understanding of distributed computing frameworks like Ray and Spark • Demonstrable experience in Kubernetes and Terraform • Experience with Sagemaker a plus • Broad understanding of cloud architecture tools and services, such as S3, EMR, Kubernetes, Lambda functions • Experience in AWS and Azure is highly desirable • Extensive experience in full software development life cycle E2E including in production monitoring • Rich experience and deep expertise in the areas of Big Data and large scale data platforms, especially in AI and ML • Highly experienced and deep understanding of CI/CD automation • Rich experience in combined engineering practice and agile development • Excellent analytical skills; Capability in identifying and resolving complex problems • An understanding of and experience in payment organizations is a plus • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field. A higher degree in a related field is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• health, dental and vision insurances • retirement savings plan • paid time off • health savings account • flexible spending accounts • life insurance • disability insurance • tuition reimbursement