Senior Applied AI Architect — Hybrid/Remote

LAM RESEARCH Corporation; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Lam Research is seeking a Senior Applied Intelligence Architect to define how we select, adapt, evaluate, route, and govern AI across enterprise operations and product experiences. You will convert cutting-edge research into deployed capabilities that deliver measurable business outcomes and maintain governance, safety, and cost controls.

You will lead architecture, model selection, embedding, retrieval, tools, agents, and deployment patterns while mentoring teams and aligning with enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or higher degrees with years of experience.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Substantial experience in applied AI or machine learning systems and architecture.
• Experience deploying production AI systems using foundation models, multimodal models, retrieval, tools, agents, or similar capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own Lam's applied intelligence architecture and implementation roadmap across frontier, daily-driver, commercial, and open-weight models.
• Translate business and technical requirements into deployable intelligence solutions, including model selection, routing, and deployment patterns.
• Design model-agnostic interfaces and reusable contracts to enable platform adoption with minimal vendor lock-in.
• Define qualification and evaluation systems for grounded correctness, performance, safety, latency, and cost.
• Lead experiments and production transitions; convert work into reference architectures and reusable patterns.

Skills

Strong communication

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Applied AI systems

Python and ML frameworks

Cloud / platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12+ years

Master's degree + 8+ years

PhD + 5+ years

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Kubernetes

MLflow

Knowledge graphs

Ontology platforms

Job description

Lam Research is seeking a Senior Applied Intelligence Architect to define how we select, adapt, evaluate, route, and govern AI across enterprise operations and product experiences. You will convert cutting-edge research into deployed capabilities that deliver measurable business outcomes and maintain governance, safety, and cost controls.

You will lead architecture, model selection, embedding, retrieval, tools, agents, and deployment patterns while mentoring teams and aligning with enterprise