Senior Generative AI Architect
First seen by Alion on Sep 1, 2026.
About the job:
About Tredence:
Tredence is a global data science solutions provider founded in 2013 by Shub Bhowmick, Sumit Mehra, and Shashank Dubey focused on solving the last-mile problem in AI.
Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company embraces a vertical-first approach and an outcome-driven mindset to help clients win and accelerate value realization from their analytics investments.
The aim is to bridge the gap between insight delivery and value realization by providing customers with a differentiated approach to data and analytics through tailor-made solutions.
Tredence is 4500-plus employees strong with offices in San Jose, Foster City, Chicago, London, Toronto, and Bangalore, with the largest companies in retail, CPG, hi-tech, telecom, healthcare, travel, and industrials as clients.
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced and visionary Senior Generative AI Architect with 1215 years of experience in AI/ML, including hands-on work with LLMs (Large Language Models) and Generative AI solutions.
In this strategic technical leadership role, you will be responsible for designing and overseeing the development of advanced GenAI platforms and solutions that transform business operations and customer experiences.
As the GenAI Architect, you will work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to conceptualize, prototype, and scale generative AI use cases across the organization or client engagements.
Key Responsibilities:
GenAI Solution Architecture & Design:
- Lead the design and development of scalable GenAI solutions leveraging LLMs, diffusion models, and multimodal architectures.
- Architect end-to-end pipelines involving prompt engineering, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM fine-tuning.
- Select and integrate foundational models (e.g., GPT, Claude, LLaMA, Mistral) based on business needs and technical constraints.
Technical Strategy & Leadership:
- Define GenAI architecture blueprints, best practices, and reusable components for rapid development and experimentation.
- Guide teams on model evaluation, inference optimization, and cost-effective scaling strategies.
- Stay current on the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape and assess emerging tools, APIs, and frameworks.
Collaboration & Delivery:
- Work with product owners, business leaders, and data teams to identify high-impact GenAI use cases across domains like customer support, content generation, document understanding, and code generation.
- Support PoCs, pilots, and production deployments of GenAI models in secure, compliant environments.
- Collaborate with MLOps and cloud teams to enable continuous delivery, monitoring, and governance of GenAI systems.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- Education: Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related technical field. PhD is a plus.
- Experience: 12-15 years in AI/ML and software engineering, with 3+ years focused on Generative AI and LLM-based architectures.
Core Skills:
- Deep expertise in machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and deep learning architecture.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, transformers, fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, PEFT), and prompt engineering.
- Proficient in Python, with libraries/frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI API, PyTorch, TensorFlow.
- Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate) and RAG pipelines.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native AI architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and API integration.
Architectural & Leadership Skills:
- Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, secure, and efficient GenAI systems.
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to mentor engineering teams and drive innovation across the AI/ML ecosystem.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with multimodal models (text + image/audio/video).
- Knowledge of AI governance, ethical AI, and compliance frameworks.
- Familiarity with MLOps practices for GenAI, including model versioning, drift detection, and performance monitoring.
Skills
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Model, Solution Design, Solution Architect, IT Strategy, Machine Learning, AI Governance