Principal AI Architect – Governance

🔥 58 minutes ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $197.5k - $264.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Vuori

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51 - 200 employees

🛒 Retail

👗 Fashion

👥 B2C

💰 $400M Venture Round on 2021-10

Retail • Fashion • B2C

Vuori is a company that specializes in premium performance apparel influenced by the active lifestyle of Coastal California. The brand combines elements of fitness, surfing, sport, and art, aiming to redefine traditional activewear with a fresh perspective on performance clothing.

📋 Description

• Shape the evolution of Vuori's enterprise AI architecture • Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, and integration patterns • Lead technical evaluations of AI platforms, foundation models, cloud services, and tooling • Make build-versus-buy-versus-partner recommendations • Raise engineers' architectural capability through design reviews, pairing, documentation, and reusable patterns • Develop and operationalize Vuori's AI governance framework covering model risk management, data privacy, bias detection, audit trails, and regulatory compliance • Establish AI engineering standards, security guardrails, testing and evaluation protocols, and responsible AI policies • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Security, and Data teams on regulations, data handling, and ethical standards • Implement monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement processes for production AI systems • Align AI architecture and governance with organizational priorities and investment decisions • Advise executive sponsors, engineering leadership, and external partners or auditors on AI architecture and risk • Collaborate with AI product, engineering, and data teams to embed architectural and governance requirements from the start • Mentor engineers and technical leads through architectural guidance and design reviews • Track and report platform reliability, governance adherence, security posture, and business impact • Assess emerging AI technologies, best practices, and industry standards • Refine standards, improve governance processes, and remove friction for teams building AI responsibly

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or technology architecture • Significant experience owning enterprise AI or data platform architecture at scale • Experience designing and governing AI systems in production, including LLMs, agentic systems, ML pipelines, and model serving infrastructure • Deep expertise in enterprise AI governance, risk management, security, and compliance frameworks • Experience defining technical standards, making architecture decisions, and driving adoption across large, cross-functional engineering organizations through influence rather than direct authority • Experience with cloud-native architectures on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud • Experience with modern AI infrastructure patterns including RAG, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks • Experience building and deploying with frontier AI lab models, platforms, and/or frameworks, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or Meta • Exceptional communication skills with engineering, business, and executive audiences • Strong executive presence and ability to build alignment, challenge assumptions constructively, and influence decisions across a matrixed organization • Preferred: Experience with enterprise AI governance platforms, model risk management frameworks, or AI regulatory standards such as the EU AI Act or NIST AI RMF • Preferred: Familiarity with MLOps, model lifecycle management, AI observability, and responsible AI tooling • Preferred: Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio, or Google Gemini Enterprise • Preferred: Background in retail, direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, or a similar consumer operating environment • Preferred: Demonstrated ability to establish and scale practical architecture standards and governance capabilities in high-growth organizations • Preferred: Active engagement with the broader AI and technology community through publications, speaking, or open-source contributions

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Insurance • Savings and Retirement Plan • Employee Assistance Program • Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks • Paid Time Off • Wellness & Fitness benefits • Bonus eligible

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