Founding AI Platform Architect & MD — Platform Leader

AI Pulse; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Baker Tilly is seeking a Managing Director, AI Platform Architect to lead the architecture of its AI Product Group. This hands-on role designs the agent platform, co-designs the intelligence substrate, and sets a model-agnostic strategy while ensuring enterprise-grade standards and security.

You will mentor engineers and guide architecture forums. The position emphasizes building patterns, owning the platform, and delivering production-grade solutions with vendor-neutral approaches, in a

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software and platform architecture or engineering.
• Recent hands-on depth in LLM-based and agentic systems carried to production.
• Founder or zero-to-one platform experience is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state architecture for AI product portfolio and decision records.
• Lead architecture absorption from partners and maintain firm-owned standards.
• Establish evaluation-first engineering as an architectural standard.

Skills

LLM-based systems

Agentic systems

Python

TypeScript

Architectural leadership

Prototype & build-first

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

SDKs

Job description

Baker Tilly is seeking a Managing Director, AI Platform Architect to lead the architecture of its AI Product Group. This hands-on role designs the agent platform, co-designs the intelligence substrate, and sets a model-agnostic strategy while ensuring enterprise-grade standards and security.

You will mentor engineers and guide architecture forums. The position emphasizes building patterns, owning the platform, and delivering production-grade solutions with vendor-neutral approaches, in a