Principal Architect, AI Labs
InformaticaBase Salary
$197k - $365k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical and AI diligence for potential acquisitions and strategic investments.
- Evaluate architecture, models, training and inference, data strategy, infrastructure, security, scalability, technical differentiation, and technical debt.
- Interview and score DeepTech talent and assess build-versus-buy decisions and technology defensibility.
- Partner with founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders during diligence.
- Identify technical risks and opportunities and communicate recommendations to AI Labs leadership.
- Identify shared AI technologies, evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, standards, and services for portfolio companies.
- Advise on capabilities that should be built centrally across AI Labs and assess technical and nontechnical tradeoffs.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor across the AI Labs portfolio without becoming a centralized bottleneck.
Requirements
- Principal- or Distinguished-level engineering or architecture experience in AI, including basic and applied AI, ML, and production-scale AI products.
- Deep understanding of modern AI architectures, models, training, post-training, inference, data, evaluation, infrastructure, and production systems.
- Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar technical stacks and distinguish technical differentiation from implementation detail.
- Experience working with startup or founder-led engineering teams.
- Strong technical judgment, product taste, and pragmatic business thinking.
- Experience with technical diligence, DeepTech investing, acquisitions, or startup evaluation is preferred but not required.
- Experience shipping differentiated AI/ML products is valued.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com