Senior Enterprise AI Architect - Secure Regulated AI

Chaos, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

Relocation assistance

Annual bonuses

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking an experienced AI Architecture Lead in the United States to define enterprise AI reference architecture, build secure AI platforms, and guide AI across the SDLC with policy-driven controls. You will map AI use to federal standards and chair the AI Architecture Review Board.

You will lead with deep hands-on experience in LLMs, retrieval, guardrails, and tool integration, while ensuring compliance in regulated environments such as ITAR and NIST.

Qualifications

• Extensive software/enterprise architecture experience across large orgs.
• Proven design and delivery of AI/ML/LLM systems in production.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple teams.
• Hands-on with LLM architectures, retrieval, guardrails, model routing, tool use.
• Experience deploying AI developer tools at scale and measuring impact.
• Strong DevSecOps and CI/CD experience with GitHub, IaC, Kubernetes, secure software supply chain.
• Experience in regulated environments (CMMC/NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, ITAR/CUI).
• Cloud architecture in AWS GovCloud, Azure Government or equivalent; on-prem or air-gapped deployments.
• Active DoD 8540 certifications (Advanced: CCISO, CISM, CISSP, GSLC; Intermediate: GSEC, SSCP)

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise AI reference architecture: standards, approved models and tools, and decision rights for every team.
• Build secure AI platforms: LLM gateways, model routing, access controls, retrieval, agent frameworks, and cost tracking.
• Set the architecture for AI across the SDLC and CI/CD: coding assistants, agentic dev tools, automated review and testing, policy-as-code gates.
• Design data boundaries that keep CUI and ITAR data inside approved environments, from commercial cloud and GovCloud to air-gapped networks.
• Map AI use to CMMC 2.0, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, ITAR/EAR and NIST AI RMF, and chair the AI Architecture Review Board.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI/LLM systems design

Cross-team leadership

LLM architectures & agents

AI developer tools rollout

DevSecOps & CI/CD

Regulated environments experience

Cloud architecture (GovCloud/Azure Gov

TS clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Master's degree or PhD

DoD 8540 certifications (Advanced: CCISO, CISM, CISSP, GSLC; Intermediate: GSEC, SSCP)

Tools

GitHub

Pipeline security

IaC

Kubernetes

Job description

CHAOS Industries is seeking an experienced AI Architecture Lead in the United States to define enterprise AI reference architecture, build secure AI platforms, and guide AI across the SDLC with policy-driven controls. You will map AI use to federal standards and chair the AI Architecture Review Board.

You will lead with deep hands-on experience in LLMs, retrieval, guardrails, and tool integration, while ensuring compliance in regulated environments such as ITAR and NIST.