Machine Learning Engineer - Tech Lead III

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

About Crowe Applied AI & Machine Learning

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, modern architectures, and industry experts, to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way we do business.

Our world-class AI and ML professionals give Crowe the ability to capture and harness the power of data. A combination of Machine Learning Engineers and ML DevOps Engineers create and deploy AI functionality to solve complex problems. We focus on building scalable AI products, based on rigorous data exploration, validation via proof-of-concept buildout, and close partnership with subject matter experts across business areas. As a member of the AI Lab, you will seek to understand and solve business problems at their earliest stage, distinguishing Crowe in the market and driving the firm’s technology and innovation strategy.

The future is powered by AI, come build it with us.

About the Team

• We foster good science . You are given the time and resources to build your expertise in your project and beyond; you will guide fellow MLEs and product stakeholders through your work.

• We want to make good scientists better . MLEs have plenty of options on the job market. We want to be one of the best. We have regular ethics and book club meetings, monthly lightning talks where team members teach each other, support for conferences, and weekly “10P” independent time for ongoing learning.

• We truly value work-life balance. Our distributed team offers unlimited PTO and a flexible work-from-home policy. We actively discourage weekend and off-hours work (unless that’s genuinely your thing).

About the Role

• As a Tech Lead in the AI Lab, you will play a pivotal role in steering early-stage projects from concept to validation. Your leadership will guide a team of machine learning engineers through the initial phases of data and model exploration, setting the foundation for scalable AI solutions.

• Lead the exploration and evaluation of early-stage data, ensuring the integrity and applicability for model development.

• Document findings and provide strategic recommendations to business stakeholders, outlining potential paths forward, technological capabilities, and relevant limitations.

• Engage with your team to derive realistic effort estimates, embracing the iterative nature of early-stage AI development.

• Participate in ethical, risk, and security discussions to ensure all solutions meet Crowe’s high standards.

• Facilitate meetings with business stakeholders to refine project objectives and demonstrate preliminary results.

• Ensure a seamless transition of validated concepts to the AI Development team for full-scale implementation.

• Actively contribute to the professional growth and development of your team members via code review and coaching.

Required Skills

• Proven ability to lead technical projects and execute tasks autonomously amidst ambiguity.

• Strong foundation in Python programming and version control with Git.

• Excellent communication skills, adept at summarizing complex technical details for non-technical audiences.

• Strategic thinker, capable of linking technical findings to business objectives.

• Proven leadership in managing technical teams, with a focus on innovation and strategic analysis.

Preferred Skills

• Expertise in prompt engineering and familiarity with tools like Enterprise ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Azure AI Studio.

• Previous experience in a professional services environment.

• Background in business analysis, with a knack for translating business needs into technical requirements.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:
Crowe ( is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type 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.

Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.