Forward Deployed AI Architect

About The Role

We’re looking for a Forward Deployed AI Architect to lead our most mission-critical client engagements. This isn’t a back-office architecture role. You’ll be in the field - shoulder-to-shoulder with clients - designing end-to-end AI systems, setting technical direction, and ensuring that what we build actually works in the real world. You’ll be equal parts technologist, strategist, and translator: dropping into the weeds when systems need unblocking, stepping up to the balcony to shape client strategy, and always keeping focus on the only thing that matters - building technology that solves the most important problems for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical discovery with clients: understand environments, constraints, and the realities of dynamic enterprises.
• Design AI/ML architectures that balance speed, reliability, and cost - but never at the expense of outcomes.
• Provide architectural guardrails while enabling engineers to move fast and adapt in the field.
• Act as the forward-deployed face of technical leadership, tailoring communication from engineers to C-levels.
• Teach and enable client teams by turning complexity into clarity.
• Influence decision-making by linking technical choices to business wins.
• Guide engineers through execution without smothering them in process.
• Translate client-specific solutions into reusable patterns that strengthen our platform.
• Share insights across the company, raising the bar for future deployments.

About You

• 8+ years designing and delivering complex software systems, with strong AI/ML depth.
• Proven experience as a technical lead or architect in high-stakes, enterprise environments.
• Mastery of the AI development lifecycle: from messy data ingestion to model deployment and monitoring.
• Ability to engage credibly across audiences - engineers in the trenches, executives in the boardroom.
• Background in consulting or client-facing engineering roles where outcomes mattered more than process.
• Systems thinker with a missionary mindset: you’re here to win, not to optimize for your next job.

Why Join Us

• Impact: Lead the design of AI systems that move the needle for global enterprises.
• Exposure: Work across industries on problems that rarely have playbooks.
• Enablement: Build not just solutions, but client capabilities that outlast your engagement.
• Culture: Join a team that prizes creativity, resilience, and the primacy of winning over process.
• Growth: Stretch yourself - real growth is painful, nonlinear, and career-defining.