
Chief Architect
Twelve Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $300,000 - $360,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define and maintain the north star architecture.
- Set and enforce API and platform standards.
- Lead and implement critical cross-cutting projects.
- Drive platform-wide reliability, performance and cost efficiency improvements.
- Architect and guide “deploy anywhere” patterns for enterprise needs.
- Lead architecture reviews and document decisions via Architecture Decision Records.
Requirements
- 15+ years of total industry experience in software engineering or AI/ML.
- 5+ years operating at Senior Staff or Principal level.
- Strong experience in more than one AI/ML domain.
- Strong distributed systems + API design experience.
- Proven ability to reduce complexity.
- Deep production instincts.
- Comfortable being hands-on in a modern stack.
Benefits
- Full health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible PTO and parental leave policy.
- Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years.
- VISA support (such as H1B and OPT transfer for US employees)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
API designdistributed systemsarchitecture decision recordsplatform standardsreliability improvementsperformance improvementscost efficiency improvementsdeploy anywhere patternssoftware engineeringAI/ML
Soft skills
leadershipproject managementcomplexity reductionhands-on approachcommunication