Chief AI Platform & COE Director

Edwards Lifesciences Belgium; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 232,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Edwards Lifesciences is building an AI Center of Excellence in Irvine, CA, to apply AI across the structural heart journey and develop innovative digital solutions that support patient care. The role focuses on architecting secure, scalable AI services and guiding cross-functional teams.

The candidate will lead the AI platform, governance, and delivery, collaborating with IT, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to accelerate innovation while ensuring safety and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of experience in software or AI architecture, including at least 5 years in a formal technical leadership or chief architect capacity
• Experience negotiating a formal shared-capacity or co-delivery model with an internal IT organization

Responsibilities

• Design reusable, secure, multi-tenant AI services that product and business teams can consume without rebuilding common capabilities
• Operate the AI platform as an internal product with defined customers, roadmap, service levels, adoption measures, and developer experience
• Chair the operating cadence of the AI Center of Excellence
• Own build, buy, or rent decisions for AI capabilities, with the authority to stop an internal build
• Own the reference architecture and enforce technical standards across all AI initiatives
• Own the AI gateway, model routing, and observability layer
• Build and lead delivery pods that include engineers from IT under a formal shared-capacity agreement
• Own production reliability for AI applications

Skills

Software architecture

AI architecture

Technical leadership

Cloud platforms

MLOps / LLMOps

Cross-functional leadership

API / microservices design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cloud platforms

API design

Microservices design

MLOps

LLMOps

Observability

Kubernetes

Job description

Edwards Lifesciences is building an AI Center of Excellence in Irvine, CA, to apply AI across the structural heart journey and develop innovative digital solutions that support patient care. The role focuses on architecting secure, scalable AI services and guiding cross-functional teams.

The candidate will lead the AI platform, governance, and delivery, collaborating with IT, engineering, and clinical stakeholders to accelerate innovation while ensuring safety and compliance.