Manager, Applied AI Scientist (Lead design and development manager over AI)

Manager, Applied AI Scientist

 Location: Hybrid – Atlanta GA

Position Summary:

The Manager, Applied AI Scientist leads the organization’s applied artificial intelligence research, product innovation, and technical strategy. This role is responsible for guiding all AI research activities, advancing new machine learning initiatives, and ensuring alignment with both industry advancements and business objectives. The Manager supervises and mentors a multidisciplinary AI team—including PhD-, Master’s-, and Bachelor’s-level researchers and engineers—while fostering a culture of scientific excellence, practical innovation, and product impact.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all AI research that will be conducted by us.  This means:
  • Supervise other research going on
  • Conduct new activities
  • Monitor the latest in research and industry related to machine learning and AI.
• Manage the AI team.  Will have all the AI researchers and engineers reporting to this role.  This includes people with PhD, Masters and B.Sc.
• Represent us in customer meetings and industry when related to machine learning and AI.
• Assist the Senior Director with all AI activities that we are conducting within the Assist management group and Bentley overall.
• Responsible for all AI products and components generated by collaborate.center (Talon, TalonView)
• Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer (or any other physical requirements).

Qualifications:

• PHD in data sciences, machine learning and/or Artificial intelligence

• Accomplished with strong AI experience.  Preferred to have worked on

• • Visual Machine Learning including images, 2D and 3D visual information

• • Large Language Model knowledge, working experience and research especially visual LLM.

• • Graph neural networks and Tabular Data ML and AI

• Experience in building AI based products

• Experience with dealing with data-challenging AI.  This includes lack and unbalanced data.Managing Research and product team.  This includes managing PhD, Masters level experts.

• Published and accomplished.

What We Offer:

• A great Team and culture – please see our colleague video. 
• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch this short documentary about how we got our start. 
• An attractive salary and benefits package. 
• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups. 
• A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact. 

Who We Are:

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance.

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Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.

About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com

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Bentley is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, religion, national origin, age, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.  This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, compensation, and training. Know Your Rights as an applicant under the law.

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