CareerPlan

AI Architect - Top Secret Clearance (TS/SCI CI Poly) required

Remote US VAFull-time$130k–$215k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-11
On-site

Core

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

Role type

Senior AI Architect (Consulting/Client Delivery)

Builds

Production AI models, inference services, and agentic systems on OpenShift and Red Hat AI Enterprise.

Domain

Enterprise Open Source, Generative AI, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Enterprise architecture, OpenShift, Red Hat AI (vLLM, llm-d, Eval Hub), Kubernetes, Python/Go/Java, Ansible Automation, RAG, Model optimization, Cost optimization (FinOps), Agent frameworks

Preferred skills

Agent development, Models-as-a-Service, EU AI Act compliance, Model customization, Open source contributions

Technologies

OpenShift, Red Hat AI, vLLM, llm-d, LLM Compressor, Eval Hub, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, Go, Java, NVIDIA/AMD accelerators

Responsibilities

Lead model selection and optimization; Design portable inference workloads; Architect retrieval and context patterns; Design evaluation-driven release gates; Stand up Models-as-a-Service; Build agentic systems; Own architecture and delivery plans; Certify customer engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership