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Principal AI Platform Architect

Qualys · Posted Jun 26, 2026

Foster City, California, United States
Principal
$185K–$220K per year
15+ years

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Own the end-to-end design and build of a modern lake house and AI ecosystem—powering intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and global-scale AI use cases.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $185,000 - $220,000 per year. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, relevant experience, and work location. Please note this range reflects base salary and does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. We also offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.

Responsibilities

Own the architectural vision, principles, and guardrails for AI-first capabilities, including agent orchestration, runtime hosting, model gateways, retrieval/grounding, and enterprise integrations.
Define reference architectures for agentic runtimes, tool integration, policy enforcement, identity, and secure data access in production.
Drive non-functional requirements (reliability, performance, cost efficiency, scalability) and establish SLOs and validation approaches.
Translate business and operational requirements into scalable AI flow architectures that are grounded in customer context and AI best practices.
Develop and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines across diverse enterprise systems.

Requirements

Nice to have: Vector databases
Nice to have: Embeddings
Nice to have: Feature engineering pipelines
Nice to have: Event-driven architectures
Nice to have: Real-time data architectures

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