Senior AI Architect — Hands-On, Cloud-Native

Crowe; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 102,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Flexible remote work policy

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Crowe Studio is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Architect (Manager) to design, develop, and deliver production AI solutions for clients. You will own solution architecture, feasibility, engineering quality, and production readiness while remaining actively involved in coding, prototyping, and complex problem solving.

Within Crowe Studio's Forward Deployed Engineering practice, you will collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into scalable, secure AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of production software engineering, cloud engineering, AI/ML engineering or related discipline.
• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with production-grade solutions.
• Experience architecting cloud-native applications and distributed systems (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Knowledge of generative AI, LLM patterns, prompt engineering, RAG, and agentic workflows.
• Strong communication and client-facing skills; ability to mentor teams and lead architecture reviews.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver end-to-end AI solutions including generative AI applications and agentic systems.
• Lead architecture for AI build and POC engagements ensuring feasibility, scalability, security, and business alignment.
• Remain hands-on across development, data integration, prototyping, debugging, and implementation.
• Design cloud-native AI solutions on Azure, AWS, and GCP with relevant services.
• Define patterns for LLMs, vector databases, APIs, microservices, and data platforms.
• Guide architectural decisions and maintain production readiness from discovery to deployment.
• Lead Architecture Review Board processes and communicate tradeoffs, risks, and approaches.
• Establish engineering standards and reusable patterns across client engagements.
• Design eval frameworks, monitoring, observability, guardrails for reliable AI ops.
• Collaborate with AI/data/MLOps/DevOps/security teams for integrated enterprise solutions.
• Evaluate tradeoffs among custom development, managed AI services, and low-code platforms.
• Identify and address risks in performance, security, reliability and cost.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and hands-on problem solving.
• Evaluate emerging AI frameworks and tools for continuous improvement.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Cloud-native architectures

LLM & AI systems

Prompt engineering

Client-facing communication

Mentoring engineers

Architecture reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related

Master's degree or cloud certifications

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Crowe Studio is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Architect (Manager) to design, develop, and deliver production AI solutions for clients. You will own solution architecture, feasibility, engineering quality, and production readiness while remaining actively involved in coding, prototyping, and complex problem solving.

Within Crowe Studio's Forward Deployed Engineering practice, you will collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into scalable, secure AI