AI Architect
US$144,000 – US$329,000 / yr base salary
Posted 25 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior Manager - Lead AI Architect - Knowledge AI”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
| Base salary | US$144,000 – US$329,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyComputer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics
Study levelMaster's or higher
Location: Anywhere in Country
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The opportunity
We’re hiring an experienced agent Lead AI Software Architect that is an expert in designing and implementing AI memory architectures and data fabric for complex enterprise use cases. This role is for Lead Architect who will lead a team of AI Architects who understand how to build advance memory architectures, context design, data fabrics for AI, multi-agent memory communication systems. They should be familiar with short term/long term, episodic, semantic, associative and advanced structural memory design patterns. Both dedicated, shared and federated memory architectures. Familiar with algorithmic approaches to selective retention and decay strategies. RAG, skills and other context setting capabilities using advance semantic chunking and search capabilities. Understanding of inference optimization including distributed inference for prefill and decode, pipelining architectures/batching of inference. The successful candidate is someone who has experience in enterprise multiagent design patterns. Understanding of AI pre/post training, fine tuning/customization and model synthesis a plus. The candidate should thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about enabling scalable AI solutions.
Your key responsibilities
- Design memory architectures for multi-agent systems to be replicated across AI native designed systems.
- Design of context systems including RAG and Skills with semantic chunking and search.
- Implement and test these architectures benchmarking performance against agent and human designed evals.
- Design replicable integration frameworks for use of memory architecture across multiple systems.
- Drive agent design requirements and implement through AI Native design process.
- Assess through primary and secondary research emerging memory architectures and frontier model proposals.
- Collaborate with other architectural experts in AI, Security, Data and Infrastructure to insure balanced and practical outcomes.
- Support strategic business development activities for emerging technology as required.
- Present at academic conferences and support development of IP filings
- Hands on coding and mentoring other members of the Knowledge / Data team
- Lead a group of skilled experts in building Knowledge and data systems for Knowledge AI.