Remote VP AI Architect — Lead AI Platform

CrowdStrike Inc.; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 350,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a VP-level AI Architect to define and drive a company-wide AI-first architecture across business units and products. You will connect AI models with scalable software and infrastructure, guiding practical designs and cross-team collaboration.

You’ll build reference implementations, mentor engineers, and ensure security and governance are embedded in AI systems while enabling high performance and cost-effective operations across cloud and edge environments.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, systems engineering, or AI engineering, including senior technical leadership across multiple products or business units.
• A record of personally designing and delivering production AI systems, including generative or agentic applications and the infrastructure that supports them.
• Strong foundations in distributed systems, software design, APIs, and performance engineering, with the ability to work across application and infrastructure layers.
• Practical experience with model integration, inference serving, retrieval, and evaluation, including the tradeoffs involved in deploying and operating AI systems at scale.
• Experience establishing shared platforms and engineering standards across independent teams. Ability to align senior stakeholders, explain architectural tradeoffs, and mentor engineers through implementation.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision‑making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the company-wide AI architecture and roadmap. Establish shared interfaces and design patterns, resolve cross-business-unit tradeoffs, and work with product and engineering leaders to put architectural decisions into practice.
• Design and build full-stack AI and agentic systems. Connect models and retrieval to agent runtimes, memory, tools, and execution environments.
• Architect production AI systems for performance, resilience, and scale. Benchmark model and serving options, investigate bottlenecks across software and infrastructure, and improve latency, throughput, and compute efficiency.
• Create a consistent developer experience across products through reusable components, common APIs, and shared tooling.
• Design the AI lifecycle architecture, from data ingestion and model adaptation through evaluation, deployment, and operational feedback.
• Embed security, governance, and auditability into AI architectures. Define permissions and execution boundaries for agents, address prompt injection and data exposure, and make system actions traceable.

Skills

AI architecture

Distributed systems

APIs & performance

Leadership across products

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/CE

Tools

Linux systems

Cloud & edge

Model integration

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a VP-level AI Architect to define and drive a company-wide AI-first architecture across business units and products. You will connect AI models with scalable software and infrastructure, guiding practical designs and cross-team collaboration.

You’ll build reference implementations, mentor engineers, and ensure security and governance are embedded in AI systems while enabling high performance and cost-effective operations across cloud and edge environments.