Associate Director - AI Infrastructure Architect (AI Factory)
Core
Define reference architecture and guardrails for AI workloads across Azure, AWS, 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 engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Enterprise cloud architecture, GPU/accelerator management, Kubernetes, MLOps/LLMOps, Identity and access management, FinOps, Responsible AI principles
Preferred skills
Vector pipeline architectures, emerging accelerator evaluation
Technologies
Azure, AWS, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Own AI infrastructure reference architecture and standards; Define standard AI workload intake patterns; Set guardrails for sensitive data and model access; Design GPU capacity patterns; Support qualification of AI platforms; Define MLOps/LLMOps reference chain; Maintain architecture decision records; Advise stakeholders on feasible options; Track AI infrastructure market trends; Coach engineers on AI infrastructure practices
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
