Rubrik
Principal AI Architect
$254K–$356K
Palo Alto, CA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of core Software/Systems Engineering architecture experience, including 4+ years dedicated to building and deploying applied AI/ML systems in production.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s/Ph.D. is a plus.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and deployment of secure, scalable AI systems that solve enterprise problems and deliver measurable business impact.
What you'll do
- Architect and implement applied AI solutions, including retrieval, prompting, tool-calling, orchestration, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Lead MLOps, evaluation, monitoring, and security practices for production AI systems.
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders, mentor engineers, and develop reusable AI patterns and components.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of Software/Systems Engineering architecture experience, including 4+ years building and deploying applied AI/ML systems in production.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on Generative AI experience, including LLMs, RAG, context graphs, memory management, and agentic AI architectures.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Go; experience with AI orchestration, data ecosystems, distributed systems, cloud platforms, security, and production monitoring.
Nice to have
- Master’s/Ph.D.
- Open-source AI contributions, publications, or active AI engineering community participation.
Pay
$254,300 — $356,300 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Java, Go, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, PyTorch
AI focus
Builds and deploys applied AI/ML systems, including Generative AI, RAG, agentic architectures, AI workflows, MLOps, evaluation, and responsible AI controls.
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