Sr Dir Gen AI Science

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Senior Director, Generative AI science will develop Gen AI solutions, fine tune and build Gen AI models, and help enterprise functions leverage these models to power end applications. This role will partner closely with other data science and ML teams, digital and product teams, data analytics team, engineering, and business functions across the organization to drive development and implementation of innovative Gen AI models and systems. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for Gen AI science solutions.
• Develop, operationalize, measure, and manage Gen AI models, and maintain high system reliability & safety.
• Design solution architecture and develop compound AI systems for enterprise use cases.
• Build Gen AI prototypes, PoCs, and explore new applications across the organization.
• Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with internal and partner teams to drive Gen AI adoption and implementation.

• Provide thought leadership to advance Gen AI research. Build partnership with academic and leading AI companies.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate degree in computer science, data science, engineering, physics, mathematics, statistics, or other quantitative fields
• 7+ years of experience in AI, machine learning, data science, engineering and architecture with a proven track record to drive innovation and impacts
• Strong knowledge and experience with big data platforms (AWS, Azure, Spark) and ML/AI languages and tools (Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Experience working with technologies related to LLMs including architectures, model evaluation, pre-training and fine-tuning techniques
• Experience in design, deployment, and evaluation of LLM-powered AI agents and tools
• Experience in prompt engineering, RAG, open source frameworks for building applications with LLM like LangChain
• Experience in developing large-scale AI/ML services
• Self-starter and self-motivated with the proven ability to deliver results in a high-energy environment
• Works effectively cross functional teams to build trusted partnership

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.  Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education of employees.  Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer’s pay bands or ranges.