Director, AI and Data Architecture
AllSpice.io
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Own and improve data architecture across Actions (CI/CD) and agentic AI leveraging ECAD data pipeline
- Manage software architecture across user‑facing automation features
- Work closely with product to architect and de‑risk agentic workflows that combine specialized AI agents for hardware design review
- Provide implementation feedback and guidance to software engineering direct reports
- Partner with the infrastructure team to prioritize required resources and services
- Coordinate observability for AI systems: tracing, prompt/version tracking, and cost monitoring
- Identify technical debt affecting velocity and work with product leadership to sequence it
- Guide research efforts on training and fine‑tuning models on electronics data
- Assist with hiring across software and machine learning roles
- Mentor staff‑level engineers and create growth paths for ICs and managers
- Contribute prototypes and code reviews and shape the technical roadmap
- Example projects: architect a caching layer for electronics component datasheets; refine electronics‑specific tool calls for GenAI; design evaluation methodology for agentic workflows; incorporate 2D/3D PCB data into design review; establish automated tests and development workflows for Actions and GenAI teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software and/or data architecture experience
- 2+ years building agentic AI workflows for non‑standard data and interactions beyond chat
- 2+ years managing direct reports
- Experience with information retrieval and vector DBs for domain‑specific corpora
- Experience training and/or fine‑tuning AI models (preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology‑related field
- Strong project management and communication skills
- Experience managing software projects using tools such as Jira or Notion
- Ability to think strategically and deliver on details
- Comfort with ambiguity and a high degree of autonomy
- Availability to work from our San Francisco or Boston flex offices on a hybrid basis, 2-3 days per week (preferred)
Benefits
- Supportive and smart colleagues.
- Flexible work.
- Big impact.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Health, dental, and vision.
- Generous PTO.
- Home office stipend.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data architecturesoftware architectureagentic AI workflowsinformation retrievalvector databasestraining AI modelsfine-tuning AI modelsproject managementautomated testsdevelopment workflows
Soft skills
communication skillsstrategic thinkingdetail-orientedcomfort with ambiguityautonomymentoringteam collaborationimplementation feedbackguidanceprioritization