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The team is tasked with accelerating end-to-end AI/ML solutions across our value stream (from Engine Design and Development, Production, and Sustainment), supporting enabling AI platforms, and building our Digital Discipline.\nLead the development and integration of AI/ML solutions into existing and future engineering systems, applying expertise across areas such as physics informed regressions, machine vision, language models, etc.\nBuild, test, deploy, and monitor AI systems across multiple use cases (design optimization, product inspection, field investigation, productivity assistants, etc.)\nLead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI and ML solutions, including data strategy, feature engineering, model training, validation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement\nDevelop and maintain full stack software systems that integrate AI models and capabilities\nDefine, architect, and implement new capabilities, standards, and operational processes within the P&W AI Platform Ecosystem to improvement scalability, reliability, and adoption\nLead technical adoption and enablement efforts for enterprise AI capabilities partnering across Engineering, Digital, and Operations organizations\nEstablish, document, and promote AI/ML engineering standards and best practices while mentoring engineers and supporting development of the AI discipline\nWhat You Will Learn:\nExperience productionizing AI systems impacting the design, make, and sustainment of Pratt & Whitney engines\nExperience productionizing Data & AI driven AI applications (regression, classification, computer vision, NLP/LLM/GenAI, forecasting, anomaly detection, etc.)\nExperience supporting operational planning, governance, and adoption of enterprise-scale AI platforms across a global engineering organization\nExposure across the Digital Tools and Data Science discipline to build proficiency across Data & AI, MDAO, Cloud Computing, etc.\nBuild partnerships across the global Pratt & Whitney team (Engineering, Digital, Ops and across international sites)\nExperience partnering with technical and business leaders to identify, prioritize, and implement high-value AI capabilities\nQualifications You Must Have:\nBachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and 10+ years of relevant digital and/or engineering experience; or Advanced Degree in a related field and 7+ years of relevant digital and/or engineering work experience\nDemonstrated experience leading the development and deployment of Data & AI solutions within complex engineering or enterprise environments, including technical leadership of significant initiatives\nExperience leading production AI/ML solutions, including model development, deployment, MLOps, system integration, and operational support\nExperience architecting and delivering software systems that integrate AI capabilities into engineering or business workflows\nHands on experience using LLM-based chat systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, etc.)\nQualifications We Prefer:\nProfessional Certificates for AI and Cloud Applications (e.g., AWS Solution Architect Associate or Profession, AWS ML Specialty, etc.)\nPrior knowledge of the aerospace industry (design, analysis, manufacture, and/or aftermarket support)\nExperience developing, deploying, and maintaining a production cloud-based application (Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure)\nExperience deploying and managing ML on edge devices\nExperience developing, deploying, and maintaining Python-based packages or web/API applications\nExperience implementing various types of AI solutions including, LLM/GenAI, Machine Vision, Physics Informed Regressions, etc.\nExperience with ML packages such as Tensorflow or PyTorch\nExperience defining and implementing standards, operational practices, or platform capabilities for enterprise AI environments such as Databricks, mlflow, AWS Sagemaker Studio, or similar technologies\nExperience scaling production ML and MLOps capabilities across multiple projects, products, or organizations\nExperience leading cross-functional technical efforts involving engineering, digital, cybersecurity, legal, or compliance stakeholders\nDemonstrated success mentoring engineers and helping establish engineering best practices within an organization\nEngineering experience with multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) experience with FEA or CFD and optimization\nDisciplined software engineering experience (e.g., automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD)\nNavigating compliance processes for export control, legal, cyber security, architectural review, etc.\nWhat is my role type?\nIn addition to transforming the future of flight, we are also transforming how and where we work. We’ve introduced role types to help you understand how you will operate in our blended work environment. This role is:\n\nHybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.\nCandidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.\nAs part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.\nThe salary range for this role is 132,400 USD - 251,600 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. 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