We are seeking a technically credible leader with hands-on experience delivering production AI/ML solutions, particularly agentic systems. You will bring the practical understanding needed to guide engineering decisions, assess technical tradeoffs and develop strong technical talent.
This role also requires strong collaboration across Boeing. You will build relationships with other business units and enterprise functions to align technical approaches, leverage shared capabilities and expertise, and contribute to broader Boeing AI initiatives. You will translate relevant enterprise requirements into practical implementation within Digital Services and represent the portfolio’s needs and experience in cross-Boeing collaboration.
Position Responsibilities
Develop Shared AI/ML Capabilities: Lead delivery of high-priority, reusable AI/ML services, components and tooling for commercial products and services. These will be platform-level harnesses, agents and tools, supporting multiple customer-facing offerings.
Steer AI Safety & Quality: partnering with the AI Governance leadership, advise on and develop both guardrails and evaluation frameworks
Enable Product Teams: Help teams adopt shared platform AI capabilities and meet established safety, quality and governance requirements through practical tooling, guidance and engineering support.
Build Partnerships Across Boeing: Develop and maintain relationships with other Boeing business units and functions, including engineering, IT, cybersecurity, safety, quality and governance stakeholders. Represent Digital Services in relevant AI initiatives, share expertise, identify opportunities for reuse and collaboration, and align portfolio delivery with enterprise requirements.
Develop Integrated Roadmaps: Partner with product and platform management to establish technical strategies, priorities and delivery roadmaps, balancing business value, technical risk, dependencies and team capacity.
Lead and Develop People: Manage, coach and motivate employees and contractors across data science, AI engineering, data engineering and software development. Recruit talent and support professional growth.
Drive Delivery and Customer Outcomes: Guide capabilities from ideas and requirements through deployment and operation. Maintain effective customer and stakeholder relationships and measure adoption, quality, reliability and business value.
This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at Richmond location. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)
Candidates must have at least one year of experience in a leadership role (team leader, temp manager, large scale cross functional project/program management, or formal manager experience) OR have completed the Boeing internal course “Exploring Leadership”
5+ years of experience delivering AI/ML, data science or analytics solutions in a commercial environment, including production deployment
1+ years of experience delivering agentic AI services or capabilities
Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships, influence stakeholders and communicate technical decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences
Must consent to Canadian Government Controlled Goods Program (CGP) assessment
Must be legally authorized to work in Canada
Individual must not pose a risk for safeguarding of controlled goods
Must be eligible to handle US export-controlled data
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)
3+ years of experience in an AI/ML, data science or analytics leadership role, such as manager, technical lead or principal
Experience implementing AI safety, quality and governance frameworks in production environments
Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Experience leading AI platform or enablement capabilities supporting multiple products or teams
Experience collaborating across business units or enterprise functions in a large organization
Experience with cloud computing and hosted cloud services, such as Azure, AWS or GCP, particularly Azure Databricks
Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs or graph-based retrieval (GraphRAG)
Experience in a software development management role
Experience in the aviation domain
Conflict of Interest
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Additional Information
This requisition is for a locally hired position in Canada. The employer is Boeing Canada. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Benefits and pay are determined by Canada and are not on Boeing US-based payroll. This is not an expatriate assignment.
Please note that the information shown below is a general guideline only. Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. Salary pay range: CAD 108,000.00 – CAD 193,000.00
To review the Canadian Controlled Goods and Public Service and Procurement Canada requirements please go to the following government pages below:
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/industrial-security.html
https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/personnel/pdcf-rsrp-eng.html
Language Requirements
Not Applicable
Education
Not Applicable
Relocation
Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
Security Clearance
This position requires an active or ability to obtain Canadian Government Controlled Goods Program (CGP) assessment.
Visa Sponsorship
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
- Contingent Upon Award Program
- This position is not contingent upon program award
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