Principal AI Deployment Architect

Accellor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Remote work options

Healthcare & retirement benefits

Professional development & certs

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Accellor seeks a Principal FDE to lead our most strategic enterprise engagements, embedding with customers to translate AI ambitions into production architectures. You’ll shape data, AI, and governance end-to-end, serving as the trusted technical voice and guiding patterns for future deployments.

You’ll scale a team to deliver production systems with frontier models while ensuring measurable outcomes, security, and high-value delivery.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience.
• 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers.
• 7+ years as a Solutions Architect, Principal SE, Forward Deployed Engineer, or Technical Lead at a data platform, AI, or enterprise SaaS company.
• Customer-facing track record with senior technical buyers and architecture review boards.
• High agency; comfortable being the senior technical voice in the room with the customer.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery workshops with customer architects, data leaders, and AI teams; map data sources and requirements.
• Own the scoping for AI deployments with clear acceptance criteria around accuracy, data coverage, and governance.
• Translate complex AI + data concepts into executive-ready architecture proposals; defend trade-offs to CxO-level stakeholders.
• Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models.
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, and technical quality.

Skills

Engineering leadership

FDE management

Solutions Architect

Customer-facing

Executive communication

AI platforms

Production AI deployments

Frontend/Backend code

LangChain

Cloud data integration

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Salesforce

Job description

Accellor seeks a Principal FDE to lead our most strategic enterprise engagements, embedding with customers to translate AI ambitions into production architectures. You’ll shape data, AI, and governance end-to-end, serving as the trusted technical voice and guiding patterns for future deployments.

You’ll scale a team to deliver production systems with frontier models while ensuring measurable outcomes, security, and high-value delivery.