Cornerstone OnDemand
Senior AI Architect
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Cornerstone is hiring a Senior AI Architect to define and drive architecture, design, and technical strategy for AI-enabled product platforms. The role involves leading AI and cloud architecture on AWS, collaborating with product teams to develop AI-powered solutions, and ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability across applications and workflows.
Highlights
- Define and own AI and cloud architecture for product ecosystems focusing on AWS scalability, performance, and security.
- Establish best practices for AI system design including model hosting, inference, data pipelines, and governance on AWS.
- Lead architectural reviews and decisions on build vs. buy for AI capabilities using AWS-native AI services.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and UX teams to deliver AI-enabled product features and technical blueprints.
- Hands-on experience with Python, Java, React, and AI frameworks to build AI-powered full-stack applications.
- Deep AWS expertise required including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, SageMaker, and Bedrock.
- Design API-first and event-driven systems with REST and GraphQL to expose AI capabilities.
- Implement data architectures using SQL, NoSQL, vector databases, caching, and messaging solutions.
- Integrate MLOps and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure as code (Terraform/CDK).
- Must have 5+ years architecting AI applications on AWS and 10+ years in software development.
- Compensation range: $167,000 to $267,200 USD base salary, plus bonuses and comprehensive benefits.
Senior AI Architect Full Description
Senior AI Architect
Dublin, CA, United States
We're looking for a
Senior AI Architect
This role is Office Based, Dublin Office
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior AI Architect to define and drive the architecture, design, and technical strategy for AI-enabled product platforms. This role will play a critical part in shaping our AI vision—embedding intelligence across applications, platforms, and workflows—while ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AI-driven application development and must have strong, hands-on experience architecting and operating solutions on AWS, including cloud-native and AI workloads. This individual will partner closely with product and engineering leaders to translate business problems into scalable, AI-powered solutions that deliver real customer value.
In this role you will…
AI & Architectural Leadership
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior AI Architect to define and drive the architecture, design, and technical strategy for AI-enabled product platforms. This role will play a critical part in shaping our AI vision—embedding intelligence across applications, platforms, and workflows—while ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AI-driven application development and must have strong, hands-on experience architecting and operating solutions on AWS, including cloud-native and AI workloads. This individual will partner closely with product and engineering leaders to translate business problems into scalable, AI-powered solutions that deliver real customer value.
In this role you will…
AI & Architectural Leadership
- Define and own the AI and cloud architecture for product ecosystems, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and responsible AI usage.
- Establish best practices for AI system design on AWS, including model hosting, inference patterns, data pipelines, and governance.
- Lead architectural reviews for AI-driven systems, cloud platforms, integrations, and modernization initiatives.
- Drive architectural decisions around build vs. buy for AI capabilities, including AWS-native AI services.
AI-Driven Product Development
- Collaborate with Product Managers and UX teams to translate business needs into AI-enabled product capabilities and AWS-based technical blueprints.
- Design architectures that support AI-first user experiences, intelligent automation, personalization, and decision support.
- Ensure platforms support rapid experimentation, model iteration, and continuous delivery of AI features in AWS environments.
- Balance near-term delivery with a long-term AI and cloud platform strategy.
Technical & AI Expertise
- Provide hands-on architectural guidance for building AI-powered full-stack applications using Python, Java, React, and modern AI frameworks.
- Design and integrate LLM-based services, ML models, and intelligent agents into production systems.
- Architect API-first and event-driven systems exposing AI capabilities via REST and GraphQL.
- Must have deep experience with AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, and AWS-native AI/ML services (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker).
- Architect scalable, cost-optimized cloud-native AI inference and data processing workloads on AWS.
- Drive decisions on data architectures, including SQL, NoSQL, vector databases, caching, and messaging.
- Integrate MLOps and DevOps practices, including CI/CD for models, monitoring, observability, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CDK).
You have what it takes if you have…
AI & Technical Expertise (Must Have)
- 5+ years strong, hands-on experience architecting and delivering AI-powered applications on AWS (mandatory).
- 10+ years in software development
- Advanced proficiency in Python for AI/ML and backend systems; solid experience with Java and React.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities through API-first architectures (REST and GraphQL).
- Deep understanding of cloud-native AI architectures on AWS, including Kubernetes (EKS)-based deployments.
- Experience with data pipelines, feature engineering, vector search, and inference patterns at scale.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps and MLOps, CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation on AWS.
Architectural & Product Skills
- Proven track record of defining and delivering enterprise-scale, AI-enabled architectures in a product-driven organization.
- Ability to bridge business problems with AI and AWS architecture, influencing product roadmaps and investment decisions.
- Strong understanding of agile development and iterative delivery for AI systems.
Leadership & Communication
- Excellent communication skills to articulate AI and AWS architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to mentor and influence teams without direct authority.
- Strong problem-solving mindset, focused on delivering measurable business value through AI.
Our Culture:
Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.
Who We Are:
Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.
Total Rewards:
At Cornerstone, we are dedicated to inspiring excellence and pushing boundaries in everything we do. Our compensation strategy is based on three fundamental principles: equitable pay, market-driven research, and skill-based appraisals. As part of our mission to share success and empower individuals to thrive in an ever-changing world, the listed salary range is just one element of Cornerstone’s comprehensive compensation package. This compensation package may also include annual bonuses, short- and program-specific awards depending on the role, and a comprehensive benefit offering. The disclosed salary range reflects the geographic differential based on the location of the position if applicable. The starting salary for the successful applicant will depend on several job-related factors, including education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, and market demands. This range is based on a full-time position and may be adjusted in the future. Join us in shaping the future of work — tomorrow, together. Experience flexibility and empowerment in your career at Cornerstone. The
BASE salary range for this position is: 167000 - 267200 USD.
BASE salary range for this position is: 167000 - 267200 USD.
Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, color, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable Federal, State, or Local fair employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at careers@csod.com or +1 855 454 8433.
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