Human Resources Manager (JFK Airport) - 80K-85K / Annual

$80K - $85K Jamaica, NY, US Mid Level AI/ML Engineer

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About This Role

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Hallmark Aviation Services is a premier airline customer service provider for some of the world's leading airlines. We are contracted with leading INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC AIRLINES to provide exceptional services to passengers, including First & Business Class guests.

Hallmark's 2500+ employees provide clients and travelers "Peace of Mind" in the hustle and bustle of today's world.

We are seeking a Human Resources Supervisor with exceptional people and communication skills, strong work ethic, and preferably, experience and knowledge in Customer Service and Hospitality.

SUMMARY

Supervise or perform all general HR related functions for the station

Coordinate and ensure Company policies, airport ordinances, and programs are implemented and followed

DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS (Including but not limited to):

  • Oversee the daily operations of HR and Office Administrative tasks
  • Ensure all federal, state, local laws and Corporate HR-related compliance matters are updated and managed
  • Assist with Recruiting, Screening, Interviewing and Hiring Candidates for open positions
  • Assist with Creating and placing job advertisements and attend local job fairs
  • Train, Schedule, Coach and Supervise local phone screeners, Admin staff and Recruiter
  • Help grade and assess screening evaluations
  • Maintain applicant tracking and onboarding system
  • Conduct New Hire Orientation in absence of Recruiter
  • Conduct background investigations and reference checks
  • Ensure that Security ID Badges and Customs Seals are timely requested, issued and terminated, Monitor expiration dates
  • Order, Monitor and Control uniform distribution
  • Conduct Uniform audits to ensure adherence to grooming standards
  • Maintain employee personnel files and medical files and monitor the HR filing system
  • Answer employment inquiries
  • Coordinate with Head Office regarding employment activities including LOA, Worker’s Compensation, Benefits, and Grievances
  • Conduct investigations for to address policy violations including harassment, and discrimination
  • Responds to inquiries regarding policies, procedures and programs
  • Act as liaison with local Business Managers and Head Office HR Department
  • Monitor and upgrade Cross-Utilization List
  • Coordinate with Safety Manager to ensure OSHA compliance
  • Ensures Worker’s Compensation Reports are properly documented and reported
  • Attend local Business Manager meetings and Town Hall Meetings
  • Conduct Exit Interviews
  • Any other assigned duties

Required Skills

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

  • Professional demeanor and reputation
  • High moral standards and integrity; honest
  • Able to work in a fast pace, corporate environment
  • Excellent Communication, Customer Service and Presentation Skills (written and oral)
  • Ability to cope well with pressure and to manage multiple tasks with minimum direction
  • Strong Computer Skills; MS Office, WORD, EXCEL and HRIS Systems (PowerPoint a Plus!)
  • Must be comfortable with various cultures and sensitive to employees’ needs
  • Well organized, creative, resourceful and capable of following up in a timely manner
  • Fluent in English, in written and oral form
  • Capable of working independently; self-starter
  • Must pay close attention to details
  • Flexible with schedule; may work some weekends and nights
  • Some travel between stations and Head Office may be required
  • Occasional lifting up to 50 lbs.
  • Previous HR experience required
  • PHR or SHRM-CP certifications preferred

Salary Context

This $80K-$85K range is in the lower quartile for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $170K across 217 roles with salary data).

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Role Details

Title Human Resources Manager (JFK Airport) - 80K-85K / Annual
Location Jamaica, NY, US
Category AI/ML Engineer
Experience Mid Level
Salary $80K - $85K
Remote No

About This Role

AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.

Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.

Across the 37,339 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 91% of the market. At Hallmark Aviation Services, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.

Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.

What the Work Looks Like

A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.

Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.

Skills Required

Aws (33% of roles)

Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.

Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.

Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.

Compensation Benchmarks

AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $154,000 based on 8,743 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $147,000. This role's midpoint ($82K) sits 46% below the category median. Disclosed range: $80K to $85K.

Across all AI roles, the market median is $190,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $244,000. The 90th percentile reaches $300,688. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Engineering Manager ($293,500) and AI Safety ($274,200). By seniority level: Entry: $85,000; Mid: $147,000; Senior: $225,000; Director: $230,600; VP: $248,357.

Hallmark Aviation Services AI Hiring

Hallmark Aviation Services has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in Jamaica, NY, US. Compensation range: $85K - $85K.

Location Context

Across all AI roles, 7% (2,732 positions) offer remote work, while 34,484 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,633 roles, $204,100 median); Los Angeles (1,356 roles, $179,440 median); San Francisco (1,230 roles, $240,000 median).

Career Path

Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.

From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.

The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.

What to Expect in Interviews

Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.

When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.

AI Hiring Overview

The AI job market has 37,339 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 3,672 entry-level, 23,272 mid-level, 7,048 senior, and 3,347 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 7% of the market (2,732 positions). The remaining 34,484 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.

The market median for AI roles is $190,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $244,000. The 90th percentile reaches $300,688. Highest-paying categories: AI Engineering Manager ($293,500 median, 21 roles); AI Safety ($274,200 median, 24 roles); Research Engineer ($260,000 median, 264 roles).

Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.

The AI Job Market Today

The AI job market spans 37,339 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (33,926), AI Software Engineer (823), AI Product Manager (805). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.

The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (3,672) are outnumbered by mid-level (23,272) and senior (7,048) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 3,347 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.

Remote work availability sits at 7% of all AI roles (2,732 positions), with 34,484 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.

AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $190,000. Top-quartile roles start at $244,000, and the 90th percentile reaches $300,688. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.

Category matters for compensation. AI Engineering Manager roles lead at $293,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,600. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.

The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Rag (23,721 postings), Aws (12,486 postings), Rust (10,785 postings), Python (5,564 postings), Azure (3,616 postings), Gcp (3,032 postings), Prompt Engineering (2,112 postings), Kubernetes (1,713 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.

Frequently Asked Questions

Based on 8,743 roles with disclosed compensation, the median salary for AI/ML Engineer positions is $154,000. Actual compensation varies by seniority, location, and company stage.
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
About 7% of the 37,339 AI roles we track offer remote work. Remote availability varies by company and seniority level, with senior and leadership roles more likely to offer location flexibility.
Hallmark Aviation Services is among the companies actively hiring for AI and ML talent. Check our company profiles for detailed breakdowns of open roles, salary ranges, and hiring trends.
Common next steps from AI/ML Engineer positions include ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer. Progression depends on whether you lean toward technical depth, people management, or product strategy.

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