Senior Principal, ML/AI

The role

Lead large cross-functional ML/AI initiatives as a technical leader and trusted subject-matter expert. Own an 18 to 24 month ML/AI technical roadmap that balances innovation with business value, and work with engineering, product, operations and business leaders.

What you will do

• Serve as technical leader of multiple large, cross-functional ML/AI solutions with significant, lasting impact
• Define and drive the 18 to 24 month ML/AI technical roadmap, balancing breakthrough innovation with reliable business value delivery
• Influence partner roadmaps across engineering, product, operations and business teams, including priorities and resourcing
• 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 opportunities to grow revenue, reduce cost and improve efficiency using ML/AI
• Address problems adjacent to your immediate sphere of influence
• Stay ahead of developments in ML, AI, generative AI and 2D/3D modeling, and translate insights into internal best practices
• Scrutinize existing work to find efficiency gains such as inference latency, retraining intervals and compute cost

Required qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 12+ years of professional experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence or data science, with several years in senior or principal roles leading major programs
• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering large-scale ML/AI solutions end to end: data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and operations
• Deep expertise in ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), data engineering, model infrastructure, MLOps, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and scalable production systems
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and drive change across organizations
• Strong communication and presentation skills for senior leadership
• Track record of measurable business impact through ML/AI
• Experience mentoring and guiding ML engineers, data scientists or AI researchers

Nice to have

• Experience in 3D modeling, geometry, computer vision or generative models (point-cloud, mesh, text-to-3D, image-to-3D, CAD/CAM integration)
• Strong exposure to generative AI techniques (large language models, multimodal models, diffusion, GANs) applied to business use cases
• PhD, for deep generative or 3D modeling emphasis

Benefits

• 401(k) match
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off including vacation, sick leave, floating and fixed holidays
• Maternity and bonding leave
• EAP and other wellbeing resources

Before you apply

• US-based roles participate in E-Verify; after an offer is accepted, Form I-9 information is provided to the federal government to confirm work authorization

About the company

Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) connects people with ideas to manufacturers who can make them. Its digital marketplace gives manufacturers resources to grow and makes global manufacturing capacity accessible to buyers at Fortune 1000 companies.