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Architect, AI - Active Top Secret Clearance

Remote US VAFull-time$130k–$215k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Design and deliver strategic AI solutions for enterprise clients, focusing on model selection, optimization, sovereign deployments, and running AI as a service on Red Hat platforms.

Role type

Senior IC AI Architect (Consulting)

Builds

Production AI models, agentic systems, and Models-as-a-Service on OpenShift AI and Red Hat AI Enterprise.

Domain

Enterprise Open Source, Generative AI, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Enterprise OpenShift architecture, Red Hat AI platforms (vLLM, llm-d, Eval Hub), Kubernetes application development, Ansible Automation, AI inference optimization, RAG patterns, agent frameworks

Preferred skills

Agent development in production, FinOps for AI, sovereign/regulated deployments, model customization, open source contributions

Technologies

OpenShift, Red Hat AI, vLLM, KServe, Ansible, Python, Go, Java, NVIDIA/AMD accelerators, MCP, A2A, LangGraph

Responsibilities

Lead model selection and optimization decisions, design portable inference workloads, architect retrieval and context patterns, design evaluation-driven release gates, stand up Models-as-a-Service, lead engagements from baseline to delivery, certify customer engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC