Director of Machine Learning, C3.ai
Platform Engineering
$250-330k
5 days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)
Enterprise AI application development platform
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Enterprise AI application development platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$250-330k
5 days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
C3's mission is to help industry leaders leverage enterprise AI at an unprecedented scale to thrive in the digital era.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field (PhD preferred)
- 12+ years of experience in ML infrastructure, distributed systems, data engineering, or AI/ML platforms in a software company
- 6+ years of leadership experience managing highly technical teams in ML engineering, AI infrastructure, or MLOps
- Strong technical background in machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn), distributed training, and cloud-based ML platforms
- Deep expertise in MLOps pipelines, model serving (TorchServe, TensorFlow Serving, MLflow, KServe), and model monitoring
- Hands-on experience with cloud AI/ML services (AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI, Azure ML) and Kubernetes-based ML orchestration
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++ with experience in ML-specific libraries and tools
- Experience with large-scale distributed training, data pipelines, and feature stores
- Strong understanding of CI/CD for ML, automated model retraining, and A/B testing methodologies
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- C3 AI is seeking an experienced Director of Machine Learning to lead our Machine Learning (ML) Platform Engineering team
- In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling our ML infrastructure to power AI-driven (including Generative AI) applications across the organization
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our ML platform is robust, scalable, and optimized for performance, while driving innovation and continuous improvement
- This leadership role requires a hands-on technical leader who can balance strategic vision with execution, drive adoption of ML best practices, and foster a high-performance culture within the team
- Lead and manage a team of ML platform engineers focused on designing, building, and maintaining our ML infrastructure and tools
- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for LLM completions, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring, ensuring scalability and efficiency
- Define and drive the strategic direction and roadmap for machine learning infrastructure, model deployment, and MLOps in alignment with business objectives
- Architect and design scalable, reliable, and efficient end-to-end ML workflows, including model training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining
- Collaborate with data engineering, AI research, and software teams to ensure seamless integration of ML models into production environments
- Establish best practices for model governance, versioning, reproducibility, and monitoring to improve model lifecycle management
- Oversee performance monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting mechanisms for real-time and batch ML workloads
- Partner with talent acquisition to grow the team by hiring and mentoring world-class ML platform engineers
- Work cross-functionally to prioritize initiatives, track progress, and ensure timely delivery of ML platform improvements
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends in Generative AI, MLOps, distributed computing, and AI infrastructure to drive continuous innovation
Our take
C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. C3.ai delivers a comprehensive and proven set of capabilities for rapidly developing, deploying, and operating large scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications for any enterprise value chain in any industry.
At the core of the C3 AI Suite is a powerful model-driven AI architecture that dramatically enhances the productivity of data scientists and application developers while future-proofing applications against underlying IT evolution. The C3 AI Suite is supposed to be 10 to 100x faster and more reliable than other solutions or DIY approaches, enabling robust delivery of production applications with less code and cost.
The C3 AI Suite seamlessly works with existing data storage, sources, tools, and infrastructure investment, while flexibly operating in a private, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud environment. Having incorporated OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI software from Google and academia in its enterprise search product, investors are anticipating a huge surge in business for this innovative company.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2018
$100m
SERIES F
Mar 2017
$11m
SERIES E
Total funding: $221.8m
Company benefits
- Paid Parental Time Off: For US employees, mothers are eligible for up to a total of 10 to 12 weeks of paid parental time off with your newborn. All parents, including those adopting children, are eligible to take up to a total of 4 weeks of paid parental time off
- Hybrid Work: C3 AI employees may choose to work from home and office
- Advanced Degrees: Lifelong learning is a part of C3 AI. That’s why we will cover the total cost for employees to earn a master’s degree in computer science online. Those who complete the degree get three more big perks—a $25,000 cash bonus, a guaranteed 15% raise and a stock grant
- Continuous Education: C3 AI holds monthly employee training sessions as well as weekly lunch-and-learns. C3 AI also encourages further education by offering bonuses for the successful completion of select online courses
- Relax and recharge: In the United States, C3 AI offers 15 days of paid time off every year. As your tenure with the company grows so does your paid time off! C3 AI also offers 10 paid public holidays around which you can build your vacation leave
- Health Coverage: C3 AI offers competitive coverage. Our program includes medical, dental, and vision
- Equity: Restricted stock units are granted to all full-time C3 AI employees
- Free gym membership: To help keep you at the top of your game, C3 AI offers employees a free gym membership at our state-of-the-art fitness facility
- Catered lunches daily: C3 AI provides a fully stocked snack area and beverage refrigerator that contains everything from energy drinks to sodas and iced tea. Every day C3 AI provides a catered, gourmet lunch so that the team can relax together and share ideas
- Commuter check program: C3 AI offers tax saving commuter benefits program
- Travel assistance: Employees are provided global health insurance while traveling for business
- Ping-pong and pool tables: C3 AI has been known to host ping-pong and pool tournaments, allowing you to step away from the monitor. This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy coworkers while hitting a white ball at them
- Friday happy hour: Relax and unwind at the end of the week at C3’s weekly Friday Happy Hour. Enjoy good food, good drinks and great company at our office
- Flexible spending accounts: C3 AI offers both Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts. Both accounts enable you to pay for essential health and wellness before you pay taxes on it
- Life insurance: C3 AI offers short term / long term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Additional leave benefits: C3 AI offers paid time off for bereavement and jury leave
- Continental breakfast: It’s the most important meal of the day. C3 AI offers breakfast five days a week, including oatmeal, cereal, fruit, and delicious coffee
- 401K: C3 AI offers fund options via Charles Schwab for retirement savings
Company values
- Innovation - Our ambition is to solve problems that have never been solved before
- Curiosity - We are self-learners, fulfilled by continuous knowledge acquisition to accelerate innovation
- Integrity - We comport ourselves with unwavering ethical integrity, respect, and courtesy
- Collective Intelligence - The respect we have for the intelligence and capabilities of one another fosters boundless collaboration
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Patricia House
(Vice Chairman)Previously Marketing Director at Oracle for 3 years and Executive Vice President at Frame Technology for 4 years
Thomas Siebel
(Chairman & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle for 6 years and CEO of Gain Technology for 2 years
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