Senior Federal AI Infra Architect | GPU & LLM Platforms

Government Acquisitions; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Acquisitions, Inc. (GAI) seeks a Principal AI Infrastructure Architect to lead AI infrastructure strategy for U.S. Federal Government deployments. You will architect GPU-based platforms, AI factories, and enterprise AI environments, aligning with security and mission requirements.

You will collaborate with executive leadership, sales, and partners to translate complex needs into secure, scalable architectures while mentoring engineering teams and guiding solution development.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise infrastructure, data center architecture, cloud, HPC, or related domains.
• 7+ years in senior architecture or technical leadership roles.
• Experience designing complex, large-scale AI/HPC environments.
• Deep GPU infrastructure, distributed computing, storage, networking, and data platforms knowledge.
• Ability to translate mission/business requirements into actionable architectures.
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills for executive audiences.
• Experience with U.S. Federal Government customers and related security/compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as GAI’s senior technical authority for AI infrastructure, accelerated computing, GPU architectures, and enterprise AI platform design.
• Lead architecture and technical strategy for AI factories and large-scale AI environments spanning compute, storage, networking, data platforms, security, and AI software.
• Develop and maintain reusable reference architectures, design standards, sizing methodologies, capacity models, and implementation frameworks for Federal AI deployments.
• Design and validate GPU-based platforms for AI training and inference, including cluster architecture, workload placement, performance optimization, scalability, resiliency, and lifecycle planning.
• Provide technical leadership across the NVIDIA ecosystem, including DGX, HGX, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NIM microservices, CUDA, and AI Factory architectures; support joint workshops, solution development, and go-to-market activities with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners.
• Architect high-performance storage and data solutions for AI training, inference, data lakes, hybrid AI environments, and other data-intensive workloads; evaluate technologies based on performance, scale, availability, security, and operational requirements.
• Design high-performance networking for distributed AI environments, including GPU-to-GPU communication, cluster fabrics, distributed training, large-scale inference, and AI Factory deployments.
• Define infrastructure patterns for enterprise LLM and generative AI deployments, including model hosting and serving, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic AI, secure model access, and Federal on-premises, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.
• Provide technical leadership for GAI’s most strategic AI pursuits by supporting customer discovery, executive briefings, architecture workshops, capture activities, proposals, competitive positioning, solution reviews, and technical win strategies.
• Partner with Pre-Sales Solution Engineering to qualify opportunities, review complex architectures, mentor technical staff, and ensure solution quality, consistency, and technical excellence.
• Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure technologies and advise executive leadership on technical strategy, partner priorities, investments, Innovation Lab capabilities, and differentiated solution offerings.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships with Federal customers and maintain strong technical relationships with OEM, ISV, cloud, data center, and ecosystem partner leadership.

Skills

Enterprise AI architecture

Executive stakeholder management

Security and compliance awareness

Customer-facing communication

Performance optimization

Tools

NVIDIA DGX

NVIDIA HGX

CUDA

NVIDIA AI Enterprise

NIM microservices

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Government Acquisitions, Inc. (GAI) seeks a Principal AI Infrastructure Architect to lead AI infrastructure strategy for U.S. Federal Government deployments. You will architect GPU-based platforms, AI factories, and enterprise AI environments, aligning with security and mission requirements.

You will collaborate with executive leadership, sales, and partners to translate complex needs into secure, scalable architectures while mentoring engineering teams and guiding solution development.