AI/ML Engineering LeadProtective Life · Birmingham, AL

AI/ML Engineering Lead

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-14 Birmingham, AL Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market US$14,167–US$20,833/mo

About the Company

Protective has helped people achieve protection and security in their lives for over 117 years. Through its subsidiaries, Protective offers life insurance, retirement, employee benefits and asset protection solutions to help nearly 32 million people protect life's many moments. Our work is meaningful and our impact is real. Protective's 3,800+ teammates are connected by shared values and work together to enable success for all - because we're all protectors . With a long-term focus, financial stability and commitment to doing the right thing, we empower financial professionals, customers, teammates and communities to move forward with confidence, knowing we're by their side. Protective Life Corporation, a subsidiary of Daiichi Life Holdings, Inc. (TSE:8750), has 142 billion in assets, as of Dec. 31, 2025. Protective is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and supported by a robust virtual workforce and core sites in the greater Cincinnati area and St. Louis. For more information, visit www.protective.com. We have been alerted to fraudulent career postings as well as outreach from fake recruiters on LinkedIn. Please be aware that Protective will never ask for banking information for equipment or email you from a domain outside of @protective.com. While we use channels like Indeed and LinkedIn to post authentic job postings, you can always validate the legitimacy of those postings by comparing them to those listed on our careers page (www.protective.com/careers). Report fake job postings on the Report Fraud page of our website: protective.com/report-fraud Insurance Specialties: Insurance, Annuities, Asset Protection, Employee Benefits

Responsibilities

  • ● The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.
  • ● We help protect our customers against life's uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you'll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.
  • ● Protective Life is transforming how it builds and operates software - moving to a product operating model organized around empowered, outcome-oriented teams - and is investing in machine learning and generative AI to serve customers and run the business better. Voyager is one of these product pods, spanning our Life, Annuities, and Employee Benefits lines.
  • ● The AI/ML Engineering Lead is a hands-on technical leader who owns the path from experiment to governed production for machine learning and GenAI on our Databricks Lakehouse on Microsoft Azure. You will set the engineering standards for the ML lifecycle, mentor ML and data engineers, and personally deliver critical components - while working closely with product managers, data engineers, and Model Risk partners. As a regulated life insurer, we hold models to disciplined standards: this role is accountable not only for shipping models but for their reliability, monitoring, documentation, fairness, and explainability.