Senior Principal, ML/AI
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Job Location
Lexington, KY
Also open in Denver, CO
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
Full-time
Categories
Machine Learning Engineer
About the job
Xometry is seeking a Senior Principal, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence to serve as a technical leader for large, cross-functional ML/AI initiatives with significant business impact. You will own and drive a 18- to 24-month technical roadmap, balancing innovation with business value delivery. This role involves close collaboration with engineering, product, design, manufacturing operations, and business leadership to influence partner roadmaps and resourcing. You will act as a subject-matter expert, proactively removing roadblocks and tackling problems beyond your immediate scope, identifying opportunities to drive revenue growth, cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and competitive differentiation, particularly in areas involving 2D/3D part understanding, generative AI, and advanced machine-learning platforms.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical leader for large, cross-functional ML/AI solutions with significant business impact.
- Define and drive the 18-24 month ML/AI technical roadmap, balancing innovation with business value delivery.
- Influence partner roadmaps across engineering, product, operations, and business teams, aligning priorities and championing ML/AI best practices.
- Proactively identify and remove roadblocks for teams and projects.
- Mentor individuals and technical teams.
- Act as a trusted SME, shaping ML/AI infrastructure, data, model, and tooling decisions.
- Identify and lead opportunities to leverage ML/AI for new revenue streams, cost reduction, or efficiency optimization.
- Address challenges outside of direct scope and champion holistic solutions.
- Stay current with ML, AI, generative AI, and manufacturing tech developments, translating insights into internal improvements.
- Scrutinize existing work to identify opportunities for incremental growth and efficiency optimization.
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related field (PhD preferred).
- 12+ years of professional experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data science roles, with several years in a senior or principal capacity.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering large-scale ML/AI solutions end-to-end.
- Deep expertise in machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), data engineering, model infrastructure, MLOps, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and scalable production systems.
- Experience in 3D modeling / geometry / computer vision / generative models is highly desirable.
- Strong exposure to generative AI techniques (LLMs, multimodal models, diffusion, GANs) and translating them into business use-cases.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, able to translate technical concepts into business language.
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority and drive organizational change.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, able to articulate technical vision to senior leadership.
- Track record of delivering measurable business impact via ML/AI.
- Experience mentoring and guiding ML engineers, data scientists, or AI researchers.
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Generous paid time off (vacation, sick leave, floating and fixed holidays)
- Maternity and bonding leave
- EAP
- Other wellbeing resources