AI Architecture Lead: Scale & Strategy

Axial Search; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Axial Search is seeking a senior AI architecture leader in the United States to design and evolve AI architectures across product lines. You will mentor AI/ML engineers, translate business requirements into architectural needs, and drive best practices for deployment, monitoring, and governance.

The role emphasizes leading teams through complex technical challenges, communicating trade-offs to stakeholders, and aligning architecture with business strategy and product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in AI/ML systems with at least 3 years in architecture/leadership.
• Deep fluency in ML systems design, including training pipelines, inference, model serving, and monitoring.
• Experience leading engineering teams (5+ people) through complex challenges and shipping at scale.
• Strong track record making architectural decisions under uncertainty and communicating trade-offs.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data/ML stack in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and evolution of AI architecture across product lines, balancing performance, scalability, and cost.
• Lead and mentor a team of AI/ML engineers and architects, setting technical direction and maintaining execution quality.
• Partner with product, data science, and platform teams to translate business requirements into architectural requirements.
• Drive adoption of best practices around model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and governance.
• Evaluate new AI/ML tools, frameworks, and infrastructure; make build-vs-buy decisions on core capabilities.
• Lead technical design reviews for high-stakes AI initiatives; assess risk and mitigation strategies.
• Communicate technical strategy and progress to executives; translate decisions into business impact.

Skills

AI architecture leadership

ML systems design

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

AWS cloud

GCP

Azure

Job description

Axial Search is seeking a senior AI architecture leader in the United States to design and evolve AI architectures across product lines. You will mentor AI/ML engineers, translate business requirements into architectural needs, and drive best practices for deployment, monitoring, and governance.

The role emphasizes leading teams through complex technical challenges, communicating trade-offs to stakeholders, and aligning architecture with business strategy and product roadmaps.