{"id":3139226,"url":"https://alion.io/job/photon-ai-architect-irving","title":"AI Architect - Irving","company":{"id":3186451,"name":"Photon","domain":"photon.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/photon-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"D","score":52,"open_postings":713,"ghost_share":0.801,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"}},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Irving, United 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architectures across Generative AI, Machine Learning, agentic AI, enterprise data, APIs, and application platforms.\nThe ideal candidate will combine strong AI architecture experience with deep hands-on expertise in Python, ML frameworks, LLM-based applications, orchestration frameworks, and production AI engineering.\nKey ResponsibilitiesDefine the end-to-end architecture for GenAI and ML solutions, from data ingestion and feature engineering through model execution, orchestration, integration, and production deployment.\nDesign enterprise-grade solutions leveraging LLMs, traditional ML models, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, and AI orchestration frameworks.\nBuild and validate prototypes and reference implementations using Python.\nArchitect RAG solutions, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompt construction, and response generation.\nDesign agentic AI architectures supporting tool usage, workflow orchestration, reasoning, memory, and multi-agent interactions.\nDefine patterns for integrating AI capabilities with enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, event streams, and legacy systems.\nPartner with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, application teams, and business stakeholders to translate business use cases into scalable AI solutions.\nDefine reusable AI architecture patterns, frameworks, and components that can be applied across multiple enterprise use cases.\nEstablish patterns for prompt management, model abstraction, model routing, model versioning, and evaluation.\nDesign architectures for model inference, feature pipelines, model serving, and real-time or batch scoring.\nImplement and guide development of Python-based AI services, APIs, pipelines, and orchestration components.\nEnsure AI solutions meet requirements for security, privacy, scalability, reliability, performance, explainability, governance, and auditability.\nEvaluate open-source and commercial AI frameworks and determine appropriate technologies based on enterprise requirements.\nDefine technical approaches for model monitoring, hallucination detection, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls.\nLead architecture and code reviews and provide technical guidance through implementation and production rollout.\nRequired ExperienceStrong experience as an AI Architect / ML Architect / GenAI Architect / Lead AI Engineer within large-scale enterprise environments.\nDeep hands-on programming experience with Python.\nStrong understanding of Machine Learning and Deep Learning fundamentals.\nHands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, or equivalent.\nStrong experience building LLM-based applications and GenAI solutions.\nExperience working with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent frameworks.\nStrong experience with RAG architectures, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, and reranking.\nExperience designing and building agentic AI solutions with tool calling, workflow orchestration, memory, and multi-step reasoning.\nStrong understanding of prompt engineering, prompt versioning, prompt evaluation, and structured outputs.\nExperience building REST APIs and backend AI services using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or equivalent.\nStrong understanding of model lifecycle concepts including training, fine-tuning, inference, evaluation, monitoring, and versioning.\nExperience integrating AI solutions with enterprise data sources, APIs, databases, messaging systems, and application platforms.\nUnderstanding of data pipelines, feature engineering, data quality, and model input validation.\nExperience building scalable and production-ready AI systems rather than only proof-of-concepts.\nGenAI / LLM ExpertiseExperience designing solutions using large language models and foundation models.\nStrong understanding of: Prompt engineering\nRAG architectures\nEmbeddings and vector retrieval\nTool/function calling\nAgentic workflows\nStructured outputs\nContext management\nModel routing\nGuardrails\nEvaluation frameworks\nHallucination mitigation\n\nAbility to evaluate when to use RAG, fine-tuning, traditional ML, rules-based logic, or agentic approaches depending on the business problem.\nExperience designing enterprise AI systems that can work across multiple models without creating tight vendor dependency.\nMachine Learning ExpertiseStrong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, and recommendation approaches.\nExperience with feature engineering, feature selection, model training, model validation, and inference.\nUnderstanding of ML evaluation metrics and model performance analysis.\nExperience integrating ML models into enterprise applications and operational workflows.\nFamiliarity with ML pipelines, model registries, experiment tracking, and model monitoring.\nAI Governance & Production ReadinessDefine controls for model and prompt versioning, evaluation, observability, explainability, and traceability.\nDesign AI systems with appropriate security, privacy, data protection, and access controls.\nEstablish approaches for human review and escalation where AI outputs require oversight.\nSupport implementation of automated evaluation and testing across GenAI and ML solutions.\nEnsure solutions can be monitored for quality degradation, model drift, hallucinations, latency, and reliability.\nPreferred ExperienceExperience within Banking, Payments, Fraud, Cards, Financial Crime, Wealth, or other financial-services domains.\nExperience developing AI solutions using customer, transaction, payment, behavioral, or risk data.\nExperience building AI-enabled decisioning, fraud detection, investigation, or operational automation solutions.\nExperience working in complex on-premise or hybrid enterprise environments.\nFamiliarity with distributed data 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