Senior AI Architect

AltaML • Edmonton, AB

4d • CA$100,000 - CA$150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior AI Architect, you are a principal-level technical and strategic leader responsible for designing, deploying, and scaling agentic AI solutions in production environments. You will move clients from idea → prototype → production → measurable value. This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. You are accountable for architecting sound, secure, and scalable agentic systems — while ensuring they deliver adoption, ROI, and lifecycle growth. You will partner closely with industry vertical leaders, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years in AI/ML, architecture, or technical strategy roles
• Deep experience with agentic AI, RAG systems, orchestration, and tool integration
• Experience supporting the deployment of AI systems into enterprise or regulated environments
• Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment
• Executive presence and ability to operate across technical and commercial domains
• Bias toward production, accountability, and measurable outcomes

Nice To Haves

• Express our core values
• Are hungry for knowledge
• Want to learn new skills
• Are respectful
• Collaborate with others across the whole company
• Share knowledge with coworkers
• Educate and promote AI and ML concepts both internally and externally
• Have a high work ethic and are self-motivated

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with senior stakeholders to identify high-impact agentic use cases
• Translate complex business problems into production-ready AI system designs
• Architect secure, auditable agentic workflows (reasoning, tool use, data access, evaluation)
• Drive solutions from prototype to AltaForge production deployment (our internal agentic platform)
• Ensure all solutions align with AltaForge architecture for reusability and scale
• Define and enforce evaluation standards to measure outcomes and value creation
• Support account growth by ensuring successful delivery and lifecycle value realization

Benefits

• Uncapped Vacation
• Competitive Benefits
• Office as a Resource
• Make an Impact
• Working with PhD and Master Level Colleagues

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal