Vice President, AI Architect (Remote)

CrowdStrike, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Remote; USD 350,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a VP-level AI Architect to define and drive a modern AI-first architecture across business units. You will translate priorities into practical designs and guide implementation across teams.

You’ll build full‑stack AI and agentic systems, optimize performance, latency, and cost, mentor engineers, and embed security and governance into production platforms. This senior role requires 10+ years in software architecture or AI engineering and a strong

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, systems engineering, or AI engineering, including senior technical leadership across multiple products or business units.
• Proven track record delivering production AI systems and capable of designing scalable AI architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the company-wide AI architecture and roadmap across units.
• Design and build full-stack AI and agentic systems with scalable foundations.
• Architect production AI systems for performance, resilience, and scale.
• Create a consistent developer experience across products with reusable components and APIs.
• Design AI lifecycle architecture including data ingestion, evaluation, deployment, and observability.
• Embed security, governance, and auditability into AI architectures and collaborate with Security/Legal.

Skills

AI architecture

Distributed systems

Leadership

Model integration

APIs

Inference serving

Performance engineering

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or Engineering

PhD in a related field

Tools

Linux systems

Networking

Cloud and edge deployment

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc.

Full time

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a VP-level AI Architect to define and drive a consistent, modern AI- and agentic-first architecture across CrowdStrike. This company-wide role spans business units, customer-facing products, shared platforms, and internal AI capabilities.

You’ll connect AI applications with the software and infrastructure that make them work at scale. Working with business unit and engineering leaders, you’ll translate business priorities into practical designs, establish common technical foundations, and guide implementation across teams. The architecture must support distinct product needs while making shared capabilities easier to build, integrate, and operate.

Your work will range from company-wide architectural decisions to building reference implementations and resolving difficult engineering problems. You’ll bring deep systems expertise, sound judgment about emerging AI technologies, and a record of turning architectural direction into working products.

What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive the company-wide AI architecture and roadmap. Establish shared interfaces and design patterns, resolve cross-business-unit tradeoffs, and work with product and engineering leaders to put architectural decisions into practice. Determine which capabilities should be common and where teams need flexibility.
• Design and build full-stack AI and agentic systems. Connect models and retrieval to agent runtimes, memory, tools, and execution environments. Develop prototypes and production reference implementations that give teams a tested foundation for new capabilities.
• Architect production AI systems for performance, resilience, and scale. Benchmark model and serving options, investigate bottlenecks across software and infrastructure, and improve latency, throughput, and compute efficiency. Guide deployment choices across cloud and edge environments.
• Create a consistent developer experience across products through reusable components, common APIs, and shared tooling. Simplify integration and establish engineering practices that teams adopt. Contribute to critical implementations, review designs and code, and mentor engineers and technical leaders.
• Design the AI lifecycle architecture, from data ingestion and model adaptation through evaluation, deployment, and operational feedback. Establish reproducible workflows, automated quality gates, and observability for model quality, agent task success, reliability, and cost. Build safe rollout, rollback, and recovery into production systems.
• Embed security, governance, and auditability into AI architectures. Define permissions and execution boundaries for agents, address prompt injection and data exposure, and make system actions traceable. Partner with Security and Legal to translate requirements into practical engineering controls.

What You’ll Need:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, systems engineering, or AI engineering, including senior technical leadership across multiple products or business units.
• A record of personally designing and delivering production AI systems, including generative or agentic applications and the infrastructure that supports them.
• Strong foundations in distributed systems, software design, APIs, and performance engineering, with the ability to work across application and infrastructure layers.
• Practical experience with model integration, inference serving, retrieval, and evaluation, including the tradeoffs involved in deploying and operating AI systems at scale.
• Experience establishing shared platforms and engineering standards across independent teams. Ability to align senior stakeholders, explain architectural tradeoffs, and mentor engineers through implementation.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.

Bonus Points:

• Significant contributions to open-source projects or industry standards, with experience shaping technical direction across external engineering communities and partners.
• Depth in Linux systems software, networking, accelerated computing, or AI deployment across cloud and edge environments.
• Experience modernizing established platforms into AI-native systems, particularly in cybersecurity or other environments with demanding security and reliability requirements.

CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $350,000 - $375,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.

Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards

• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs

• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge

• Paid parental and adoption leaves

• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role

• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections

• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities

• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe

CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.

CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.

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Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:12-01-2026