Principal AI Infrastructure Architect
Huron Consulting Group2 hours ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$190k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on technical lead for AI reference architecture, workload patterns, control-plane boundaries, model access, agent execution, and integration decisions.
- Define and build approved patterns for Amazon Bedrock, networking, identity, logging, data flow, and production deployment.
- Design AI control-plane patterns for registration, policy enforcement, usage tracking, attribution, quotas, audit reporting, and exception handling.
- Build reusable infrastructure as code, deployment templates, automation, sandbox patterns, service mediation, and operational tooling.
- Lead usage telemetry, token reporting, user and project attribution, and cost-management data pipelines.
- Partner with AI Security, Governance, Knowledge, and Observability Engineering to implement controls, knowledge access, evaluation, and audit evidence through automation.
- Use AI tools to accelerate architecture design, infrastructure coding, code review, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational improvement.
- Review workload onboarding, document reference architectures and runbooks, and establish engineering standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and building production cloud platforms, AI platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, or distributed systems.
- 5+ years of experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
- Strong AWS architecture experience across identity, networking, logging, observability, infrastructure as code, security boundaries, and production operations.
- Strong hands-on engineering skills in at least one modern programming language and infrastructure automation framework.
- Experience using AI tools for platform engineering, automation, code generation, code review, testing, or documentation.
- Experience with APIs, service integration, secure deployment patterns, event-driven systems, or platform automation.
- Ability to design for security, auditability, cost visibility, operational reliability, and reuse.
- Experience translating business, governance, and risk requirements into pragmatic engineering patterns.
- Preferred experience with Amazon Bedrock or equivalent enterprise model access platforms, MCP or comparable service mediation, Temporal or comparable workflow orchestration, sandboxed execution, coding agents, secure agent runtimes, developer workspaces, token and cost telemetry, usage attribution, chargeback, showback, FinOps data pipelines, or regulated and client-confidential workloads.
- Ability to travel as needed.
Benefits
- Flexible living locations across the United States.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage and other wellness programs.
- Eligibility to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program.
- Eligibility to participate in Huron’s benefit plans.