AI Architect: Enterprise ML/NLP Leader with MLOps

Stride, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 113,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride, Inc. is seeking an AI Architect to design and deliver production-grade AI solutions. You will lead a small team of AI Engineers, align AI initiatives with school services, and mentor colleagues in best practices for end-to-end ML pipelines in cloud environments.

The role emphasizes governance, data privacy, and responsible AI, with collaboration across Product, Engineering, IT, and executives. This is a home-based position offering a strategic impact across K12 and enterprise contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Math, Physics, Engineering or equivalent with 6+ years related experience.
• AWS Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect certifications are a plus but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Drives conception, prototyping, and deployment of ML models across product lines.
• Leverages AWS, Azure, containerization, and IaC to build scalable AI systems.
• Oversees data ingestion, model training, deployment, and monitoring for drift.
• Supervises 1-3 AI Engineers and flex contributors on projects.
• Collaborates with Product, Engineering, IT and executives to align AI initiatives with business goals.
• Ensures governance, data privacy, and responsible AI practices.

Skills

Python

ML libraries

NLP

Recommender systems

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

MLflow

Kubeflow

Job description

Stride, Inc. is seeking an AI Architect to design and deliver production-grade AI solutions. You will lead a small team of AI Engineers, align AI initiatives with school services, and mentor colleagues in best practices for end-to-end ML pipelines in cloud environments.

The role emphasizes governance, data privacy, and responsible AI, with collaboration across Product, Engineering, IT, and executives. This is a home-based position offering a strategic impact across K12 and enterprise contexts.