AI Solutions Architect
Harvard University4 hours ago
Cambridge, MA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Engage Harvard FAS faculty, researchers, and staff to identify AI opportunities, define outcomes, and frame problem statements.
- Lead requirements gathering, tool selection, solution architecture, rapid prototyping, and stakeholder alignment.
- Partner with the AI Solutions Engineer to produce working software and contribute to implementation, testing, demonstrations, and production transition.
- Assess solution sustainability, including cost, security, maintenance, service-owner capacity, readiness, and acceptance criteria.
- Own relationships with security, privacy, accessibility, data-governance, and research-computing stakeholders and secure required approvals.
- Document architectures, decisions, and trade-offs for maintainability and future extension.
- Track the evolving AI landscape and provide evidence-based recommendations on readiness, capability, risk, cost, and fit.
- Partner with HUIT’s AI Innovation team to evaluate emerging capabilities and lead user-value prototyping.
Requirements
- Minimum of seven years of post-secondary education or relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software development or solutions architecture.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, LLMs, or applied AI tooling.
- Proficiency with AI/ML frameworks and APIs, including LLM integration, retrieval/grounding, prompt design, and evaluation.
- Experience rapidly prototyping through spec-driven development and agentic coding tools.
- Strong communication, analytical reasoning, systems thinking, writing, and stakeholder-alignment skills across technical and executive audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Standard hybrid office/remote work arrangement with occasional on-campus presence; work location is subject to department needs and Harvard registered-state requirements.
- Comprehensive benefits including paid time off and parental leave, medical/dental/vision coverage from day one, retirement contributions, wellbeing resources, family and caregiver support, professional development and tuition assistance, commuter benefits, discounts, and campus perks.
- The position has an 180-day orientation and review period.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Harvard University
Harvard University is a private research university that provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and conducts research across disciplines. Revenue from tuition, executive and online programs, research grants, and its endowment funds its schools and institutes, including Harvard Medical School and the Division of Medical Sciences. Founded in 1636 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it operates campus and enterprise IT systems supporting teaching, research, and administration.