Chief AI Architect & Strategy Leader

Autonomize, Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision and dental insurance

401k retirement plan

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Autonomize AI in Austin is seeking a Head of AI to lead the next phase of our AI strategy, research, and execution. This high-impact role owns the AI roadmap and partners with Product, Engineering, Clinical, and Customer teams to deliver differentiated AI solutions in healthcare.

The ideal candidate blends deep technical expertise with operational excellence, driving architecture, team growth, and end-to-end production of AI products that improve outcomes for customers and patients.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in high-growth technology environments.
• Proven experience leading AI/ML teams and scaling technical organizations.
• Deep expertise in modern AI approaches including LLMs, Retrieval augmented generation (RAG), Agentic workflows, Model evaluation and optimization, ML infrastructure and production systems.
• Experience taking AI products from research/experimentation into production.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to make architectural decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and high-growth environments.
• Exceptional communication skills with executives, engineers, customers, and cross-functional teams.
• Strong ownership mindset — you take responsibility from idea through impact.

Responsibilities

• Own Autonomize AI vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned to business outcomes.
• Identify AI opportunities and translate them into scalable product capabilities.
• Lead architecture decisions across ML, generative AI, LLMs, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure.
• Establish technical standards for reliability, performance, safety, and scalability.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing AI team.
• Drive AI initiatives from concept through deployment and measurable customer impact.
• Partner with Engineering to build scalable AI platforms and infrastructure.

Skills

AI strategy

Team leadership

LLMs

RAG

Production systems

Job description

Autonomize AI in Austin is seeking a Head of AI to lead the next phase of our AI strategy, research, and execution. This high-impact role owns the AI roadmap and partners with Product, Engineering, Clinical, and Customer teams to deliver differentiated AI solutions in healthcare.

The ideal candidate blends deep technical expertise with operational excellence, driving architecture, team growth, and end-to-end production of AI products that improve outcomes for customers and patients.