AI Solutions Architect

Red8; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Red8 in Houston, TX seeks an AI Solutions Architect to design and guide enterprise AI solutions built around NVIDIA technologies and DGX reference architectures. You will translate business goals into scalable GPU-powered platforms across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

You will partner with customers to define workloads, performance targets, and data governance, serving as a technical leader within Red8’s AI practice and delivering architectures that meet security and operational

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data center, HPC, or solution architecture experience.
• Experience designing AI, GPU, HPC, or accelerated computing environments.
• Strong knowledge of NVIDIA technologies and GPU architectures.
• Understanding of generative AI, LLM, RAG, training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.
• Strong customer-facing consulting and presentation skills.
• Experience working with enterprise OEMs and technology partners.

Responsibilities

• AI strategy workshops and technical briefings.
• Develop high-level designs and implementation roadmaps.
• Produce client-facing deliverables such as BOMs and capacity models.
• Lead vendor roadmap sessions and solution validation.
• Serve as the technical lead for strategic AI opportunities.
• Communicate complex AI concepts to CIOs and engineers.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Customer-facing consulting

Kubernetes

NVIDIA technologies

GPU/HPC infrastructure

Tools

NVIDIA DGX

NVIDIA HGX

NVIDIA CUDA

NVIDIA NCCL

OpenShift

Job description

AI Solutions Architect

Houston, TX, US

5 days ago Requisition ID: 1005

Salary: $200,000.00 Annually

Position Summary

The AI Solutions Architect is responsible for designing, positioning, and guiding the implementation of enterprise AI solutions built around NVIDIA AI technologies, DGX SuperPOD reference architectures, and the NVIDIA technology ecosystem.

This role bridges the gap between customer AI use cases and the infrastructure, platforms, software, and services required to deliver them.

The AI Solutions Architect works directly with customers to understand business objectives, AI workloads, data requirements, performance expectations, and operational constraints, translating those requirements into scalable AI solutions incorporating GPU compute, networking, storage, AI software platforms, data center infrastructure, cloud services, security, and operational services.

The role serves as a technical advisor to customers and a technical leader within the organization's AI practice.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the architecture of enterprise AI solutions supporting:

• Generative AI
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• AI inference
• Agentic AI
• Machine learning
• High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Translate customer AI use cases into technical requirements across compute, GPU capacity, networking, storage, data, security, software, facilities, and operations.

Determine the appropriate deployment model including:

• Customer-owned AI infrastructure
• NVIDIA DGX-based infrastructure
• NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
• NVIDIA-certified OEM infrastructure
• Colocation
• Private cloud
• Public cloud
• GPU-as-a-Service

Develop AI solutions aligned with NVIDIA reference architectures and validated designs.

Architect solutions incorporating technologies such as or equivalent to:

• NVIDIA DGX
• NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD
• NVIDIA HGX
• NVIDIA GB200/GB300 NVL systems
• NVIDIA H100/H200 and Blackwell-generation GPUs
• NVIDIA NVLink and NVLink Switch
• NVIDIA Spectrum-X
• NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
• NVIDIA ConnectX
• NVIDIA AI Enterprise
• NVIDIA NIM
• NVIDIA CUDA
• NVIDIA NCCL
• NVIDIA Base Command
• NVIDIA GPU Operator
• NVIDIA Network Operator

Maintain awareness of the industries evolving AI Factory solutions, architectures and product roadmaps.

AI Use Case Discovery

Conduct customer workshops to understand business and technical requirements for AI initiatives.

Work with business leaders, infrastructure teams, data scientists, application teams, security teams, and AI/ML engineers to identify:

• Business objectives
• AI use cases
• Training requirements
• Inference requirements
• RAG requirements
• Performance requirements
• Security and governance requirements
• Availability requirements

Translate use cases into an actionable AI architecture and technology roadmap.

Design the underlying infrastructure required to support enterprise AI workloads.

Architect solutions across:

GPU Compute

Design NVIDIA GPU clusters ranging from smaller departmental environments through large-scale AI Factory and DGX SuperPOD deployments.

Networking

Design high-performance AI network fabrics incorporating the following or their industry equivalents:

• NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet
• RDMA/RoCE
• NVIDIA BlueField
• NVIDIA ConnectX
• GPUDirect
• High-performance Ethernet

Storage

Design AI storage platforms optimized for:

• Checkpointing
• RAG data
• High-performance parallel access

Evaluate NVIDIA-certified storage solutions from vendors such as Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST Data, WEKA, DDN, IBM, HPE, and other approved ecosystem partners.

Design the platform layer required to operate AI workloads at enterprise scale.

Solutions may incorporate:

• NVIDIA AI Enterprise
• NVIDIA NIM
• Red Hat OpenShift
• MLOps platforms
• API gateways
• AI observability

Work with AI development teams to ensure infrastructure and platforms are optimized for the intended workloads.

Assist customers in designing the data architecture supporting enterprise AI.

Provide architectural guidance around:

• Object and file storage
• Model access to enterprise data
• Data security

Partner with application, data, and AI specialists where deeper application-level expertise is required.

AI Security & Governance

Incorporate security into AI solution architectures.

Address requirements including:

• Identity and access management
• Data security
• API security
• Data privacy
• Logging and monitoring
• AI governance

Work with cybersecurity architects to integrate AI environments into the customer's broader enterprise security architecture.

AI Factory & Data Center Architecture

Assess whether customer facilities can support high-density AI infrastructure.

Provide architectural guidance for:

• Power
• Cooling
• Network cabling
• Fiber infrastructure
• Resiliency
• Physical security

Identify when customer requirements are better served through colocation, hosted infrastructure, cloud, or GPU-as-a-Service alternatives.

Maintain strong technical relationships with key AI infrastructure partners.

Work with NVIDIA-certified and approved ecosystem vendors across:

• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• AI software
• Data management
• Security
• Cloud
• Colocation
• Managed services

Evaluate new technologies and determine their appropriate role within the organization's AI solutions portfolio.

Participate in vendor roadmap sessions, NVIDIA technical briefings, solution validation, partner enablement, and Technical Review Boards.

Serve as the technical lead for strategic AI opportunities.

Responsibilities include:

• AI strategy workshops
• Technical presentations
• Whiteboarding
• Bill of Materials development
• Proof-of-concept planning
• RFP/RFI responses
• Technical proposals
• Statements of Work
• Executive briefings
• Technical demonstrations

Communicate complex AI concepts effectively to audiences ranging from engineers and data scientists to CIOs and business executives.

Produce professional customer-facing deliverables including:

• High-Level Designs
• AI Factory designs
• Network topology diagrams
• GPU cluster architectures
• Bills of Materials
• Capacity models
• AI readiness assessments
• Implementation roadmaps

Ensure solutions can transition successfully from presales architecture into implementation.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data center, HPC, or solution architecture.
• Experience designing AI, GPU, HPC, or accelerated-computing environments.
• Strong knowledge of NVIDIA technologies and GPU architectures.
• Understanding of generative AI, LLM, RAG, training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise compute, networking, and storage.
• Experience with high-performance Ethernet and/or InfiniBand.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Knowledge of Linux infrastructure.
• Experience designing enterprise architectures and technical solutions.
• Strong customer-facing consulting and presentation skills.
• Experience working with enterprise OEMs and technology partners.

Preferred Technical Experience

Experience across several of the following technology areas is highly desirable:

NVIDIA: DGX, DGX SuperPOD, HGX, GB200/GB300 NVL, H100/H200, Blackwell, Spectrum-X, Quantum InfiniBand, BlueField, ConnectX, NVLink, CUDA, NCCL, AI Enterprise, NIM and GPUDirect.

Compute: Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and NVIDIA-certified compute platforms.

Networking: NVIDIA Networking, Arista, Cisco and high-performance Ethernet/InfiniBand.

Storage: NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell, VAST Data, WEKA, DDN, IBM and NVIDIA-certified AI storage platforms.

Platforms: Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Slurm, Linux and container platforms.

AI/Data: RAG architectures, vector databases, data pipelines, MLOps, model repositories and enterprise AI platforms.

Automation: Ansible, Terraform and infrastructure orchestration technologies.

Preferred Certifications

Relevant certifications may include:

• NVIDIA AI certifications
• NVIDIA AI Infrastructure certifications
• NVIDIA networking certifications
• Red Hat certifications
• Dell, DDN, Arista, NetApp, Pure Storage, or other relevant OEM certifications

Equivalent hands-on AI architecture experience may substitute for formal certifications.

Insight Investments, Corp is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, status as a Veteran or other protected classification.