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Protective Life

AI/ML Engineering Lead

Protective Life

Birmingham, AL · Lead / Staff / Principal

$124,500 – $180,000

Listed on Protective Life’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A hands-on technical leadership role overseeing the full machine learning lifecycle—from experimentation through production deployment—on Databricks and Azure for a major life insurance company. This suits experienced engineers who want to mentor teams, set technical standards, and own both strategic direction and day-to-day implementation of ML and generative AI systems in a regulated environment.

Our summary, not Protective Life’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Hands-on technical leadership of ML and GenAI projects
  • Ownership of ML lifecycle from experiment to production
  • Setting and enforcing engineering standards for ML
  • Mentoring ML and data engineers
  • Ensuring model reliability, monitoring, documentation, fairness, and explainability
  • Working within regulated industry constraints (life insurance)
  • Collaboration with product managers, data engineers, and Model Risk teams

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