Description
We are seeking a Principal Architect for our AI Labs team. As a Principal Architect, you will lead technical and AI diligence for potential acquisitions and strategic investments. You will critically evaluate architecture, models, data strategy, infrastructure, security, scalability, technical differentiation, and technical debt.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical and AI diligence for potential acquisitions and strategic investments.
- Critically evaluate architecture, models, data strategy, infrastructure, security, scalability, technical differentiation, and technical debt.
- Interview and score DeepTech talent.
- Assess build-vs-buy questions and the defensibility of a company's underlying technology, team, and IP.
- Partner directly with founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders during diligence.
- Identify material technical risks and opportunities and translate them into clear recommendations for AI Labs leadership.
- Identify opportunities for portfolio companies to adopt shared AI technologies, evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, standards, and services.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor across the AI Labs portfolio.
Requirements:
- Principal/Distinguished-level engineering or architecture experience in AI, ML, and production-scale AI products.
- Deep understanding of modern AI architectures, models, training/post-training and inference, data, evaluation, infrastructure, production systems, and how technical choices shape product outcomes.
- Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar technical stacks and distinguish true technical differentiation from implementation detail.
- Experience working with startup/founder-led engineering teams.
- Strong technical judgment combined with deep product taste and pragmatic business thinking.
Team Values:
- Distill
- Always be learning
- Invest in relationships
- Bravery without bravado