Senior AI Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

Madison-Davis, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC seeks a seasoned Head of AI Architecture & Strategy to lead the architecture of its shared AI technology platform and guide long‑term technical direction. This senior, hands‑on role blends enterprise AI architecture, platform engineering, and technical leadership across research, investments, and internal teams.

You will design scalable AI infrastructure, set standards, and drive roadmap alignment while mentoring engineers and ensuring secure, observable production platforms

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with senior technical leadership responsibilities.
• Hands‑on architecture experience with complex enterprise/shared platforms.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model serving, and enterprise AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of shared AI services, including model gateways, inference, agent runtimes, orchestration, and retrieval.
• Guide the engineering of AI platform capabilities, agent frameworks, MCP integrations, APIs, and reusable developer tools.
• Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and implementation guidelines.
• Evaluate AI technologies and contribute to platform strategy and roadmap development.
• Provide hands‑on technical architecture, prototyping, engineering reviews, and implementation guidance.
• Ensure production platforms have security, access controls, observability, and reliability.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams while promoting shared platform adoption.
• Collaborate with software engineering, research, investment, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and technology leadership.

Skills

Senior leadership

LLMs & AI systems

Distributed systems

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

APIs

Cloud/hybrid infra

Job description

Madison-Davis, LLC seeks a seasoned Head of AI Architecture & Strategy to lead the architecture of its shared AI technology platform and guide long‑term technical direction. This senior, hands‑on role blends enterprise AI architecture, platform engineering, and technical leadership across research, investments, and internal teams.

You will design scalable AI infrastructure, set standards, and drive roadmap alignment while mentoring engineers and ensuring secure, observable production platforms