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Every day, every employee is focused on moving forward, challenging traditional limits, and always seeking a better way. We are looking for an experienced AI Solution Architect to design and implement differentiated AI applications that solve meaningful customer and business problems.\nThis role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, AI engineering, cloud platforms, and customer delivery. The architect will work closely with segment, product, engineering, security, and business teams to discover opportunities, define solution blueprints, create prototypes, and guide applications into secure, scalable production deployments.\nThe ideal candidate is highly competent in modern AI full-stack development (AIFSD), current AI technology stacks, cloud-native architecture, and performance engineering. The individual will reuse and extend CSW assets, including the UDS cloud platform and UDC client agents, to create integrated cloud-to-device AI solutions rather than isolated proofs of concept.\nRole Overview\nThe AI Solution Architect will own the end-to-end technical solution for AI applications, from problem framing and architecture through implementation, validation, deployment, and operational optimization. The role requires hands-on technical depth, strong architecture judgment, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a practical delivery plan.\nSuccess in this role means converting business outcomes into reusable architectures, accelerating delivery through existing CSW platform capabilities, and ensuring that AI applications meet enterprise expectations for security, reliability, performance, observability, cost, and responsible AI.\nJob Responsibilities\nAI Solution Architecture & Blueprinting\nDesign end-to-end architectures for generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, predictive AI/ML, and hybrid cloud-edge applications.\nCreate solution blueprints that define application components, model and data flows, APIs, integration patterns, deployment topology, security controls, non-functional requirements, and operational ownership.\nEvaluate build, buy, reuse, and extend options; select appropriate models, frameworks, vector stores, orchestration patterns, and cloud services based on measurable requirements.\nDefine reusable reference architectures, design patterns, guardrails, and technical standards for AI application teams.\nAI Application Design & Implementation\nLead and contribute hands-on to prototypes, proofs of value, minimum viable products, and production-grade AI applications.\nApply modern AIFSD practices across user experience, APIs, agent and workflow orchestration, model integration, retrieval pipelines, data services, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.\nEngineer AI applications using current technology stacks such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, REST/gRPC APIs, containers, Kubernetes, model gateways, vector databases, and MLOps/LLMOps tooling.\nDesign prompt, retrieval, tool-use, memory, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop patterns that improve quality, traceability, and control.\nGuide teams in model selection, adaptation, grounding, testing, deployment, versioning, and lifecycle management.\nSegment & Cross-Functional Delivery\nPartner with segment and business teams to understand user journeys, prioritize high-value opportunities, and convert business needs into implementable AI solutions.\nFacilitate architecture workshops, technical discovery sessions, design reviews, and trade-off decisions with product, UX, data, security, cloud, device, and engineering stakeholders.\nCommunicate architecture and delivery choices clearly to both executive and engineering audiences, including assumptions, risks, dependencies, cost, and expected outcomes.\nSupport engineering teams through implementation, integration, troubleshooting, performance testing, and production readiness.\nCSW Platform Reuse & Integration\nUse and extend CSW assets, including the UDS cloud platform and UDC client agents, as foundational capabilities for AI solutions.\nDesign secure cloud-to-device integrations for identity, telemetry, configuration, orchestration, notifications, data exchange, and AI-enabled workflows.\nIdentify platform gaps and collaborate with UDS and UDC teams to define reusable capabilities that benefit multiple segments and applications.\nEnsure solutions are modular and portable, with clear interfaces that reduce duplication and accelerate adoption across product teams.\nCloud Architecture, Scale & Performance\nArchitect resilient, multi-tenant, cloud-native services with appropriate scalability, availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and regional deployment considerations.\nDefine measurable service-level objectives and performance budgets for latency, throughput, concurrency, model response, device connectivity, reliability, and cost.\nLead capacity planning, load and stress testing, bottleneck analysis, caching, asynchronous processing, and model-inference optimization.\nDesign observability using logs, metrics, traces, AI quality signals, usage analytics, and cost telemetry to support rapid diagnosis and continuous improvement.\nApply FinOps principles to optimize model, compute, storage, networking, and data-processing costs without compromising required outcomes.\nSecurity, Responsible AI & Operational Excellence\nEmbed security and privacy into solution designs, including identity, authorization, secrets, encryption, API protection, tenant isolation, data governance, and supply-chain controls.\nApply responsible AI practices covering safety, transparency, groundedness, bias assessment, content controls, human oversight, and auditability.\nDefine CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps, automated evaluation, release, rollback, model-update, and incident-response approaches.\nConduct architecture and production-readiness reviews and ensure that key technical decisions are documented.\nJob Requirements\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; a Master’s degree is a plus.\n8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, cloud engineering, or related technical roles, including significant experience delivering cloud-based applications.\nDemonstrated experience designing and implementing production AI/ML or generative AI applications from concept through deployment and operations.\nStrong competency in modern AI full-stack development, including application engineering, model integration, retrieval and agentic patterns, evaluation, deployment, and observability.\nDeep knowledge of cloud architecture, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, event-driven design, data stores, caching, and asynchronous processing.\nHands-on proficiency in Python and at least one additional modern application language such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C#, or Go.\nExperience with modern AI frameworks and services, such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, ONNX Runtime, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or comparable technologies.\nExperience with at least one major public cloud platform and its AI, data, networking, security, monitoring, and deployment services.\nProven ability to analyze and improve application and infrastructure performance at scale.\nStrong written and verbal communication, architecture documentation, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.\nAbility to work effectively with globally distributed, cross-functional teams and to lead through influence.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building hybrid AI solutions spanning cloud services, PCs, mobile devices, edge systems, or embedded clients.\nExperience with device-cloud communication, telemetry, remote configuration, real-time messaging, and secure client agents.\nFamiliarity with enterprise SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architecture, identity platforms, policy enforcement, and data residency requirements.\nExperience with RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs, AI agents, multimodal models, small language models, model optimization, or hardware-accelerated inference.\nExperience establishing reusable architecture 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