AI Infrastructure Architect

Project Role : AI Infrastructure Architect
Project Role Description : Architect and build custom Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure/hardware solutions. Optimize AI infrastructure/hardware performance, power consumption, cost and scalability of computational stack. Advise on AI infrastructure technology and vendor evaluation, selection and full stack integration.
Must have skills : Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform
Good to have skills : Data Science, Microsoft Azure Data Services
Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
AI Powered Tech Talent
Role Summary / Description
Technical Architect role in AI/ML Computational Science focused on designing and leading enterprise-scale scientific AI, simulation intelligence, computational modeling, optimization, and ML-enabled engineering solutions on Databricks Lakehouse.
Role scope: As a Technical Architect, you will own solution architecture, define engineering standards, shape complex programs, lead technical teams, and influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
The role translates complex scientific and engineering problems into scalable AI/ML, computational science, simulation, optimization, and data architecture solutions that can be reused across industries and client programs.

Key Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end architecture for AI/ML computational science solutions, including scientific data ingestion, simulation data pipelines, feature engineering, model development, deployment, and monitoring.
Define technical direction for scientific AI, physics-informed ML, surrogate models, optimization algorithms, uncertainty quantification, generative AI for scientific workflows, and accelerated computing patterns.
Own architecture decisions across compute, storage, orchestration, MLOps, model governance, security, observability, performance, cost optimization, and integration with enterprise platforms.
Partner with client scientists, engineers, product owners, data architects, cloud engineers, and delivery leads to convert complex domain problems into practical AI/ML computational solutions.
Lead design reviews, architecture governance, technical risk assessment, solution estimation, implementation planning, and quality assurance for large and complex programs.
Guide engineering teams on reusable reference architectures, accelerators, coding standards, model lifecycle practices, and production readiness expectations.
Make and defend the business and technical case for computational science architectures with senior stakeholders, including value, feasibility, scalability, maintainability, and responsible AI considerations.
Support sales and pre-sales by shaping client solution narratives, technical proposals, demos, proofs of concept, and industry-specific AI/ML computational science offerings.
Drive thought leadership and asset development around scientific AI, simulation intelligence, digital twins, agentic workflows, generative AI, and cloud-native scientific computing.

Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computational Science, Data Science, or a related field.
Minimum 8 years of experience in AI/ML, data science, computational science, scientific software engineering, simulation analytics, or quantitative engineering solutions.
Minimum 5 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale AI/ML, data, cloud, or high-performance computational platforms.
Minimum 4 years of experience with Python and scientific/ML frameworks such as NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, XGBoost, or similar libraries.
Minimum 3 years of experience with MLOps or production ML practices including experiment tracking, model registry, CI/CD, feature stores, testing, monitoring, and lifecycle governance.
Minimum 3 years of experience with scalable data engineering, distributed compute, workflow orchestration, APIs, batch/stream processing, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
Minimum 4 years of experience leading technical teams, reviewing architecture, guiding delivery, and communicating technical trade-offs to senior business and technology stakeholders.

Required Skills/ Experience
Strong architecture knowledge across AI/ML solution design, computational science workflows, numerical modeling, optimization, simulation data management, scientific data products, and model deployment patterns.
Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Git, containers, APIs, orchestration tools, distributed processing, and engineering practices for robust, reusable, maintainable software.
Experience with ML approaches relevant to computational science, including surrogate modeling, physics-informed ML, optimization, time series, anomaly detection, computer vision, NLP, generative AI, and uncertainty-aware modeling.
Practical knowledge of MLOps, model governance, responsible AI, security, data privacy, observability, model performance monitoring, and production support models.
Ability to work with domain experts and convert scientific concepts, equations, simulation outputs, experimental data, and engineering constraints into AI/ML design patterns.
Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead distributed teams across engineering, research, product, client, and delivery groups.
Industry experience applying Databricks-enabled AI/ML computational science and lakehouse solutions in domains such as life sciences, healthcare, energy, utilities, manufacturing, chemicals, materials, aerospace, automotive, financial services, or public sector research.
5+ years of hands-on Databricks experience across lakehouse architecture, AI/ML workflows, scientific data engineering, distributed analytics, and enterprise integration.
Experience with Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, notebooks, jobs, MLflow, Feature Store, Mosaic AI, vector search, Spark, and integration with AWS, Azure, or GCP services.
Ability to architect Databricks-based workflows for scientific data pipelines, simulation feature engineering, surrogate modeling, optimization loops, ML lifecycle management, and governed deployment.

Good to Have Skills
Advanced degree such as Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics, or a related field.
External client-facing consulting experience in architecture, advisory, delivery leadership, sales, or pre-sales roles.
Experience with HPC, GPU acceleration, CUDA, MPI, distributed training, workload schedulers, or cloud-based parallel compute patterns.
Experience with digital twins, scientific foundation models, materials informatics, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, geospatial analytics, industrial optimization, or engineering simulation workflows.
Experience creating reusable accelerators, reference architectures, implementation playbooks, technical whitepapers, or industry-specific solution assets.
Cloud, data, AI/ML, MLOps, or professional architecture certifications relevant to the selected platform.
Experience with agentic AI workflows, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or scientific knowledge management.

15 years full time education

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