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Director, Data Scientist - Generative AI Systems

at Discover Financial Services

📍 2 Locations Unknown 💰 $269K – $307K USD / year Posted April 01, 2026
Salary $269K – $307K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience executive
Exp. Years 4-6 years
Education Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related fields; or Master's degree
Category AI & Machine Learning

Director-level Data Scientist – Generative AI Systems leads a seasoned team delivering NLP/vision/AI solutions with LLMs, LangChain, and vector databases.

  • Lead a team of NLP/ML specialists
  • Build and productionize AI/ML models
  • Collaborate with product/engineering to operationalize AI systems
  • Drive research contributions to conferences
  • Manage people and roadmap

Stack includes PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, LangChain, VectorDBs; focus on NLP, LLMs, and production-grade AI services.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Director-level AI/ML leader with strong Python experience, a background in generative AI and NLP, and 3+ years of people management. They will lead a multi-disciplinary team to develop production AI services using AWS, PyTorch, and state-of-the-art tooling.

Bachelor's Degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field plus 4 years AI/ML development experience4+ years programming with PythonGoScalaor Java4+ years experience leveraging open source languages for large-scale data analysis4+ years of experience with machine learning
PhD in STEM field5+ years Python/Scala/R for large-scale data analysis1+ year experience managing people6 years deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms
PythonPyTorchAmazon Web ServicesHugging FaceLangChainVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsNemo GuardrailsGuardrails
Bachelor's in CS/AI/EE/CE; 4+ years AI/ML; 4+ years Python/Go/Scala/Java; 4+ years open-source frameworks
PythonPyTorchAmazon Web ServicesAWS UltraclustersHugging FaceLangChainLightningVectorDBsLarge Language ModelsNLPComputer Vision
LeadershipStrategic thinkingCommunicationCollaborationMentoringProblem solving
Industry Fintech
Job Function Lead generative AI systems development and deployment across customer-facing AI products
Role Subtype ML Engineer
Tech Domains Python, Amazon Web Services
Visa Sponsorship Yes
director data scientistgenerative ai systemspythonpytorchaws ultraclustershugging facelangchainvectordbsnemo guardrailsllmlarge language modelsnlpaileadershipcloudawsamazon web servicesllms

Lack of 3+ years people management experience, No experience with Python/PyTorch, No cloud/AWS experience

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