Senior AI Architect: NLP & Recommender Systems in Cloud

Stride, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 113,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride, Inc. is seeking an AI Architect to design and deliver production-ready AI solutions while leading a small team of AI engineers.

The role spans data ingestion, model training, deployment, and monitoring, with governance and responsible AI considerations. The candidate will collaborate with Product, Engineering, IT, and executives to align AI initiatives with business goals, particularly in K12 contexts.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying machine learning models—especially NLP and recommender systems—using Python and common ML libraries.
• Proficiency with AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to build scalable, secure, and high-performing environments.
• Strong analytical and communication skills; ability to work independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Drives conception, prototyping, and deployment of ML models across product lines (NLP and recommender systems).
• Leverages AWS/Azure, containers, and infrastructure-as-code to build scalable AI systems.
• Mentors 1–3 AI engineers and cross-functional contributors; ensures alignment with business objectives.

Skills

ML model design

NLP

Recommender systems

Python

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

analytical skills

communication skills

team collaboration

planning skills

office tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MLflow

Kubeflow

Python

Job description

Stride, Inc. is seeking an AI Architect to design and deliver production-ready AI solutions while leading a small team of AI engineers.

The role spans data ingestion, model training, deployment, and monitoring, with governance and responsible AI considerations. The candidate will collaborate with Product, Engineering, IT, and executives to align AI initiatives with business goals, particularly in K12 contexts.