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Director, AI Engineering (Data Science) at Blend - ApplyBlast

Director, AI Engineering (Data Science)

Blend

6 months ago

2.9 on Glassdoor

Columbia, MD

Onsite

Full Time

Director

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About this role

A Director of AI Engineering leads the development of cutting-edge machine learning solutions, translating business objectives into technical strategies and driving AI initiatives from concept to production with measurable business impact.

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Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a closely related quantitative field; Ph.D. strongly preferred10+ years of progressive experience in data science and machine learning, with at least 3–5 years in a people management or technical leadership role (Director, Sr. Manager, or Principal Engineer level)Proven track record of leading high-performing AI/ML engineering teams in a fast-paced, client-facing or product environmentDeep, hands-on expertise designing and training custom transformer architectures from scratch—not only fine-tuning pre-built checkpoints, but architecting novel attention mechanisms, embedding strategies, and model topologiesStrong applied data science foundation: feature engineering, statistical modeling, causal inference, and experimental design across large-scale datasets

About Blend

blend.com

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Company Size

1001-5000 employees

Founded

2012

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Blend is a software company that provides a digital banking platform used by financial institutions to streamline consumer banking processes such as mortgage, home equity, personal loan, deposit account opening, and other banking products. Its software helps banks, credit unions, and lenders manage customer applications, document collection, and workflow automation.