
Senior AI Architect
Inogen
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Plano • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $145,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define the Enterprise AI Blueprint
- Establish and evolve the company’s AI reference architecture
- Set standards for how AI systems are built, deployed, governed, and monitored
- Design AI service layers that support both real-time and batch decisioning
- Ensure multi-region readiness including US, EU, and alignment with data residency requirements
- Act as the lead architect for AI initiatives across business domains
- Build Predictive & Real-Time Intelligence
- Architect predictive maintenance and IoT-driven data intelligence & anomaly detection systems
- Design event-driven AI workflows integrated into business operations
- Ensure sensitive data is encrypted, masked, and processed with consent-aware controls
- Embed explainability and monitoring into all deployed models
- Lead the Shift to Agentic AI
- Architect supervised AI agents capable of reasoning, invoking tools, and acting across systems
- Define guardrails, identity boundaries, escalation controls, and traceability
- Ensure AI agents operate efficiently, effectively, and safely across Salesforce, Brightree, Oracle, Five9, ServiceNow, and internal workflows
- Establish testing, red-teaming, and evaluation standards for agent behavior
- Evolving the Multi-Model Strategy
- Define how we leverage and govern multiple foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others)
- Design routing, fallback, and cost-aware inference strategies
- Implement RAG architectures with controlled retrieval and knowledge governance
- Introduce structured evaluation to measure hallucination, grounding, and reliability
- Prevent vendors lock-in through modular architecture
- Establish MLOps & LLMOps Discipline
- Define lifecycle governance from experimentation to production
- Implement model registry, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and rollback mechanisms
- Standardize feature management and drift detection
- Create traceable audit frameworks across AI systems
- Enable AI for Business functions, Products, & Services
- Enable AI-powered sales enablement, service automation, and customer intelligence
- Partner with business and R&D teams to embed intelligence into workflows, products and services
- Support secure data monetization initiatives and advanced analytics capabilities
- Embed Governance & Risk Management
- Align AI architecture with HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act considerations, and recognized AI risk frameworks
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance to ensure AI systems are defensible
- Build cost governance mechanisms to ensure AI usage is economically sustainable.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, AI, or Mathematics (required)
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field is preferred
- 10+ years in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, or data platforms
- 5+ years delivering AI/ML systems in production environments
- Proven experience designing MLOps and LLMOps architectures
- Deep understanding of LLM systems, RAG patterns, and agentic AI frameworks
- Hands on experience, Python, Prompt Engineering, Reinforcement Learning
- Experience integrating AI across enterprise SaaS platforms
- Strong background in cloud-native architecture (Azure preferred)
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Dataiku, or similar data and AI platforms
- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments (medical device or healthcare preferred)
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Clear and effective communication skills, capable of explaining complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- generous paid leaves such as vacation and sick leave
- paid volunteer time
- highly competitive and company-sponsored benefits
- wellbeing programs rooted in our strong culture of excellence.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI architectureMLOpsLLMOpspredictive maintenanceanomaly detectionevent-driven AI workflowsPythonPrompt EngineeringReinforcement Learningcloud-native architecture
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationleadershipcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptabilitycritical thinkingstakeholder engagementexplainability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in Data ScienceBachelor’s degree in AIBachelor’s degree in MathematicsMaster’s degree in relevant fieldPh.D. in relevant field