AI / ML Architect (AWS)
Hybrid – NYC
$210,000–$230,000

Our client is one of the most innovative and high-performing education organizations in the country. As they scale their internal AI Enablement team, they’re hiring a Principal ML/AI Architect with deep AWS expertise to lead the technical direction of their AI and ML initiatives.

This is a highly strategic and hands-on role where you’ll define the end-to-end architecture, implementation, and deployment strategy across their AWS ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings strong experience with SageMaker and other AWS-native ML tools, MLOps pipelines, scalable cloud infrastructure, and a security-first mindset.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the architecture for all AI/ML initiatives across AWS

• Deploy scalable, secure ML pipelines using SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, and more

• Lead MLOps infrastructure: CI/CD, versioning, monitoring, retraining

• Collaborate with data teams to build governed data lakes and batch/streaming pipelines

• Design secure and FERPA-compliant infrastructure following AWS best practices

• Mentor engineers and data scientists on cloud and ML architecture

Ideal Background:

• 7+ years experience deploying production-grade ML/AI solutions in AWS

• Deep expertise with SageMaker (including Pipelines, Feature Store, Model Monitor, etc.)

• Strong with AWS tools like Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, Redshift, DynamoDB, Glue, and Athena

• Fluency in Python and ML/DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)

• Hands-on MLOps experience with CodePipeline, CloudFormation/Terraform, and containerized workflows

• Experience with IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, and AWS security standards

• Bonus: EdTech or K–12 experience, distributed training, or serverless ML

This is a high-impact opportunity to own cloud and AI architecture at an organization that's rethinking how education systems work—and to work with a team committed to building responsible, impactful AI in the real world.

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