Principle AI Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Weyerhaeuser's enterprise AI architecture, reference architectures, and technical standards.
• Establish scalable, secure, and reusable architectural patterns that enable AI to become a core enterprise capability while ensuring interoperability, governance, and long-term maintainability.
• Guide technology strategy, platform evolution, and the adoption of emerging AI capabilities while balancing innovation, operational maturity, and business value.
• Provide technical leadership across the enterprise through architecture reviews, mentoring, engineering standards, and reusable design patterns.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, data, cybersecurity, and enterprise architecture teams to translate strategic business opportunities into technical solutions.
• Drive alignment across organizations to ensure AI capabilities integrate seamlessly into enterprise platforms and business workflows.
• Embed Responsible AI principles throughout the AI lifecycle by defining architectures that emphasize security, governance, transparency, observability, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure AI solutions are designed for enterprise-scale operations and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Job Information

• Technology Primary Location: USA-WA-Seattle
• Schedule: Full-time
• Job Level: Individual Contributor
• Job Type: Experienced
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Master's degree or PhD preferred.
• Years of Experience: 10+ years
• Experience: Designing and delivering technology solutions on edge, cloud, and data platforms; defining architecture for complex, distributed systems operating at enterprise scale; deep understanding of modern AI technologies; experience designing reusable patterns, shared services, developer frameworks, and engineering accelerators; experience implementing AI governance, Responsible AI practices, model lifecycle management, evaluation frameworks, observability, or MLOps; experience influencing technical direction across the enterprise through technical leadership rather than direct authority; excellent communication skills with the ability to engage executive, business, and technical audiences.

Compensation

• Salary Range: $135,500 - $203,300 based on your level of skills, qualifications and experience.
• Potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target.
• This position is also eligible to receive between $32,000 in restrictive stock units on an annual basis, as part of our Long Term Incentive Plan.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits plan, including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Pre-tax Health Savings Account option which includes a company contribution.
• Other benefit options such as voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs.
• Personal volunteerism, diversity networks, mentoring, and training and development opportunities.
• 401(k) plan with a paid company match in addition to our annual contribution equal to 5% of your base salary.
• 3 weeks of paid vacation to use during your first year of employment.
• Eleven paid holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours and paid parental leave for all full-time employees.

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Weyerhaeuser is an equal opportunity employer. Inclusion is one of our five core values and we strive to maintain a culture where all our people feel a sense of belonging, opportunity and shared purpose. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and supporting an equitable and inclusive environment that inspires people of all backgrounds to join, stay and thrive with our team.