Enterprise AI Platform Lead: RAG & Governance

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (US); United States; Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex seeks a Senior Principal AI Engineer to define and build a scalable enterprise AI platform that powers intelligent applications across the company. You will own the centralized AI Gateway/Control Tower, enabling governance, observability, and secure model access for agentic AI across Vertex.

With 10+ years in enterprise AI/ML, you will shape architecture standards, oversee RAG pipelines, and drive strategic direction while mentoring cross‑functional teams to deliver safe, reliable AI at

Qualifications

• Advanced degree and 10+ years designing enterprise AI/ML platforms.
• Expertise in agentic AI architectures and RAG systems.
• Experience with AI governance, observability, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI platform architecture and roadmap.
• Oversee AI Control Tower operations for governance and observability.
• Lead RAG pipelines, knowledge retrieval, and agent orchestration.
• Ensure scalability, security, and reliability of AI solutions.
• Mentor engineers and align with product, data, and security teams.

Skills

Agentic AI platform architecture

Large Language Models

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

AI orchestration

Observability

Governance

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Vector search

Job description

Vertex seeks a Senior Principal AI Engineer to define and build a scalable enterprise AI platform that powers intelligent applications across the company. You will own the centralized AI Gateway/Control Tower, enabling governance, observability, and secure model access for agentic AI across Vertex.

With 10+ years in enterprise AI/ML, you will shape architecture standards, oversee RAG pipelines, and drive strategic direction while mentoring cross‑functional teams to deliver safe, reliable AI at