Chief Architect
About The Position
Join ClearEdge as a Chief Architect, where you will set the technical direction and architecture for one of our core AI-enabled products, supporting deployment across multiple customer environments, including hybrid and air-gapped networks. You will lead architectural decisions for workflow, compliance, and dashboard capabilities, working across engineering teams to keep the platform modular, secure, and extensible as it scales to new customers. This role includes prototyping new AI capabilities using frontier LLMs and agentic architectures, leading multi-team technical efforts, and representing the platform's capabilities to leadership and prospective customers.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance; U.S. citizenship
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or similar (4 years of experience may substitute)
- 15+ years of IT experience
- Experience with Generative AI: frontier LLMs, AI-native IDEs, RAG and vector stores, agentic AI principles (orchestration, sub-agents, agent protocols)
- Experience deploying complex systems across hybrid and air-gapped environments
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including briefings for internal and external leadership
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting RMF/ATO in a classified DoD or IC environment
- Experience owning a COTS platform serving multiple customer accounts
- Experience with physical security or facility accreditation practices, such as ICD 705 or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with tools used by security and compliance teams
Responsibilities
- Own architecture vision for an assigned product, scaling it across current and future customer engagements
- Lead proofs of concept and prototypes evaluating new technologies
- Perform technical trade-off analysis and implementation decisions across teams
- Produce functional design documents; support installation and integration of the platform baseline
- Mentor engineers, including leads embedded in specific customer implementations
- Support business development: whitepaper authoring, customer briefings, proposals
- Deliver technical briefings and presentations to internal and external leadership
Benefits
- $10k annual training and education benefit
- 10% 401(k) contribution fully vested on day one
- Annual health and technology allowances
- Access to a state-of-the-art technology lab
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
