Chief AI Architect — Enterprise AI & Scalable Systems

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. in the United States seeks a VP AI Architect to define and drive a company-wide AI and agentic-first architecture across products and platforms.

You will translate business priorities into practical designs, establish common foundations, and guide implementation with engineering leaders at scale. You’ll design full-stack AI systems, connect models to runtimes and tooling, mentor senior engineers, and ensure security, governance, and observability are embedded from day one in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software architecture, systems engineering, or AI engineering.
• Experience delivering production AI systems, including generative or agentic apps.
• Strong foundations in distributed systems, APIs, and performance engineering.
• Ability to align senior stakeholders and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the company-wide AI architecture and roadmap.
• Design and build full-stack AI and agentic systems.
• Benchmark model and serving options and improve latency and throughput.
• Guide deployment choices across cloud and edge environments.
• Create a consistent developer experience with reusable components and tooling.
• Mentor engineers and review designs and code.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

APIs

Performance engineering

Mentoring

Model integration

AI deployment

Stakeholder alignment

Security awareness

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE

Tools

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. in the United States seeks a VP AI Architect to define and drive a company-wide AI and agentic-first architecture across products and platforms.

You will translate business priorities into practical designs, establish common foundations, and guide implementation with engineering leaders at scale. You’ll design full-stack AI systems, connect models to runtimes and tooling, mentor senior engineers, and ensure security, governance, and observability are embedded from day one in a