Senior AI Infrastructure Architect & Platform Leader

Mastercard; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Paid time off

Health insurance

On-site fitness facilities

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer within the AI Center of Excellence to build and scale infrastructure for AI workloads across compute, storage, networking, and accelerators. You will lead roadmaps, act as product owner for AI infrastructure, drive RFIs/RFPs, and partner with data science, MLOps, and security teams to enable enterprise-grade generative and predictive AI.

This role requires deep technical expertise, executive communication, and a passion for responsible AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or a related engineering field is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI infrastructure roadmap for Mastercard’s on premise private cloud, spanning strategy, design, procurement, delivery, installation, and lifecycle management.
• Act as a product owner for AI infrastructure, translating business and data science needs into scalable, future proof platform capabilities that support both predictive ML and generative/agentic AI workloads at enterprise scale.
• Lead RFIs/RFPs for AI infrastructure components, including CPU, GPU, storage, and networking, defining technical and commercial evaluation criteria, reviewing vendor responses, and driving fact based selection decisions in partnership with sourcing and finance teams.
• Architect and scale infrastructure capable of training large scale predictive and generative models on petabytes of data, while supporting low latency inference (real time and batch) with thousands of transactions per second across global workloads.

Skills

Executive communication

AI infrastructure knowledge

Roadmap ownership

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

MLOps familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or related field

Tools

On-prem private cloud

CPU/GPU infrastructure

High performance networking

High-density data centers

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer within the AI Center of Excellence to build and scale infrastructure for AI workloads across compute, storage, networking, and accelerators. You will lead roadmaps, act as product owner for AI infrastructure, drive RFIs/RFPs, and partner with data science, MLOps, and security teams to enable enterprise-grade generative and predictive AI.

This role requires deep technical expertise, executive communication, and a passion for responsible AI