Principal AI Architect

The posting, as Rubrik wrote it

About the role

At Rubrik IT, we are transforming how the enterprise thinks and operates — building a "thinking enterprise" where intelligent, agentic systems reason across our data, tools, and workflows to drive speed, quality, and measurable business impact. As an AI Architect, you will be a pivotal technical leader driving AI Native solutions that make this vision real.

You will operate where AI innovation, top-tier engineering, and business outcomes converge, acting as the technical bridge between complex business problems and cutting-edge AI execution. Leveraging our robust Enterprise AI Platform, you will translate ambiguous problems into concrete AI solution designs and ensure their successful deployment and measurable impact.

This role is designed for systems-thinkers and orchestrators with an AI-first mindset — leaders who move fluidly between hands-on building AI solutions, and who know how to harness model APIs, data sources, and workflow layers to build practical technology that serves the business.

What you'll do

• Lead applied AI solution design and architecture, breaking down ambiguous business problems into concrete, actionable AI solution designs.
• Contribute to the detailed design of large-scale, distributed AI/ML systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
• Design and improve retrieval, prompting, tool-calling, and orchestration patterns for internal use cases such as knowledge assistants, workflow automation, and decision support.
• Champion and enforce design standards, patterns, and best practices for scalable and secure development of AI applications across teams.
• Drive the hands-on development and implementation of key AI components, supporting both traditional and Generative AI model development and deployment.
• Build and deploy AI-enabled internal workflows that connect enterprise systems, data sources, model APIs, and automation layers.
• Leverage AI-assisted development to accelerate implementation, bringing a strong 'editor' mindset to ruthlessly audit, review, and secure AI-generated code against our standards for reliability, security, observability, and documentation.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of MLOps pipelines, including automated model training, versioning, deployment, and monitoring.
• Develop and maintain evaluation approaches for output quality, retrieval accuracy, latency, and failure modes, and use findings to improve system performance over time.
• Help identify where human review, controls, and escalation paths are required to support responsible deployment of AI-enabled systems.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to balance speed, usability, risk, and maintainability in production and near-production environments.
• Proactively collaborate with executive leadership, data science, engineering, and product stakeholders to translate business use-cases into scalable AI solutions.
• Lead rigorous problem formulation by partnering with R&D,,

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equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.

Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.

Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants in all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, promotion, compensation, training, leave, and termination.

Rubrik provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process or to perform your job, please contact hr@rubrik.com . Accommodations may include changes to the application process, documents in an alternate format, a sign language interpreter, or specialized equipment.

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