Associate Director - AI Infrastructure Architect (AI Factory)
Core
Designing reference architecture and guardrails for AI workloads across public cloud and private environments to enable secure, compliant, and economically sustainable AI adoption.
Role type
Senior IC AI Infrastructure Architect
Builds
Training and inference platforms, GPU capacity pools, data pipelines, and MLOps/LLMOps reference chains
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML platforms, GPU computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Enterprise-scale cloud architecture, GPU and accelerator technologies, Kubernetes and container orchestration, MLOps/LLMOps practices, model serving and inference optimization, identity and access management, observability, FinOps, Responsible AI principles
Preferred skills
Azure and AWS cloud platforms, vector pipeline architectures, emerging accelerator evaluation
Technologies
Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, GPU accelerators
Responsibilities
Define AI workload intake patterns and production conditions; set guardrails for data sensitivity, model access, and logging; design GPU capacity and cost models; maintain architecture decision records; advise stakeholders on feasible infrastructure options; track market innovations; coach engineers on AI infrastructure practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
