KLDiscovery

AI Architect

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$190k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the end-to-end generative AI architecture across Nebula and Client Services and Operations.
  • Personally build agent workflows, retrieval systems, evaluation harnesses, shared AI infrastructure, and production AI capabilities.
  • Develop AI Case Explorer, AI Agent Review, and AI-enabled work-orchestration capabilities for legal data.
  • Own AI/MLOps and telemetry, including model deployment and versioning, evaluation pipelines, monitoring, drift detection, cost and latency telemetry, and prompt and agent observability.
  • Design model selection, triage, and routing across Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source, and fine-tuned models.
  • Manage vector databases, retrieval systems, and the evolution of agent harnesses.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Data Science leadership to translate architecture into delivery.
  • Mentor senior individual contributors and represent KLDiscovery’s AI strategy with customers, partners, and at industry events.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, or ML engineering, including recent hands-on senior- or principal-level generative AI building.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting and personally building enterprise generative AI systems in production with customer impact.
  • Strong hands-on coding, shipping, prompt-tuning, and evaluation experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Deep expertise in LLMs, agents, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, search, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Experience designing AI pipelines spanning search, retrieval, agent harnesses, and model selection or triage.
  • Strong proficiency with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, and supporting Azure infrastructure.
  • Experience owning MLOps and AI telemetry, including deployment, evaluation pipelines, monitoring, drift detection, and prompt or agent observability.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions across product and engineering and explain AI trade-offs to executive and customer audiences.
  • Preferred: advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
  • Preferred: production experience with agentic systems using tools, planning, and multi-step reasoning.
  • Preferred: experience establishing AI governance and evaluation harnesses.
  • Preferred: open-source contributions, technical writing, conference talks, or other evidence of recognition as an AI builder.

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation including base pay, bonus potential, inclusive benefits, wellness programs, and perks.
  • Remote role for candidates based in the United States.
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