Enterprise AI Architect

About the role

Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions. We thrive on finding and cultivating talented people who are passionate about what they do. Join us and be a part of the diverse Caltech community. Job Summary The Enterprise AI Architect is responsible for designing, building, deploying, and operating enterprise-grade AI solutions that support the Institute's administrative, research, educational, and student service functions. This role serves as the Institute's senior technical expert in Generative AI, responsible for translating emerging AI capabilities into secure, scalable, and production-ready enterprise applications. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in large language models (LLMs), agentic architectures, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), workflow orchestration and enterprise integrations, in addition to modern software engineering practices. This is a highly technical role focused on hands-on solution architecture, rapid prototyping, production engineering, and technical leadership across the AI technology stack. This is an Organizational Critical position. In the event of an emergency on campus, an employee designated as organizational critical is expected to report to Campus as soon as possible to assist in division/department response and recovery efforts.

Responsibilities

• AI