Lead AI Platform Architect

GrowTal, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GrowTal, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to own the architecture of our measurement and modeling platform, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.

You will lead backend and data architecture, design orchestration for pipelines, and build systems that run large language models in production, ensuring cost-efficient, reliable outputs. The role requires deep expertise in data modeling, concurrency, and failure analysis, plus hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and evaluating

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including time responsible for architecture.
• Experience shipping machine learning or artificial intelligence systems to production.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems through to a working system, with judgment about scope.
• A record of solving complex problems with simple designs.
• Systems fundamentals: data modeling, concurrency, long-running work, and failure analysis.
• Experience building on large language model interfaces, including evaluation and handling of unreliable output.
• Fluency with artificial intelligence assisted development, and full accountability for the correctness of what you ship.

Responsibilities

• Own backend and data architecture: service boundaries, data contracts, schema design, and failure behavior.
• Design orchestration for the measurement and modeling pipelines, including scheduling, retries, and recovery from partial failure.
• Architect the systems that run large language models in production paths, covering structured output, evaluation, cost and latency, and handling of unreliable model output.
• Define the shared data model used by the application and the analytics pipelines.
• Set engineering standards through design and code review, including review of code produced with artificial intelligence assistance.
• Set technical direction with the Chief Technology Officer and provide direction to engineers and contractors.

Skills

Software architecture

ML/AI production systems

Data modeling

Systems design

Concurrency

AI-assisted development

Tools

Python

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

React

TypeScript

Postgres

pgvector

BigQuery

Temporal Cloud

Google Meridian

Job description

GrowTal, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to own the architecture of our measurement and modeling platform, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.

You will lead backend and data architecture, design orchestration for pipelines, and build systems that run large language models in production, ensuring cost-efficient, reliable outputs. The role requires deep expertise in data modeling, concurrency, and failure analysis, plus hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and evaluating