AI Architect (Pod Lead)

Experience: 10+ years engineering experience, including significant demonstrated impact designing and deploying production AI systems at scale.
The hands-on technical lead and the one broad role on the pod. You own the Detection & Disposition Engine architecture end to end, you are the senior voice in the joint working sessions, and you write code and review pull requests. Your first job is to convert an open-ended "research task" into a typed, measurable decision pipeline.
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end architecture of the Disposition Engine: the item ledger, deterministic evidence-pack assembly, the rule ladder, the AI reasoning tier, the validation harness, and the closed feedback loop.
Scale the end-to-end architecture of the existing Detection Engine.
Decide, per problem, what is deterministic and what genuinely requires reasoning and defend that boundary. This judgment is the core of the role.
Design the cross-workstream coupling: how a single schema disposition cascades into batch jobs and code findings, and how coupled items move together as change waves.
Lead design working sessions; turn ambiguity into a structured decision space and a burn-down the whole team can watch daily.
Own the gold-set evaluation strategy and the metrics that prove leverage auto-disposition rate, accuracy against decisions already made by hand, human-minutes per item, and cost per item.
Drive design-to-code: write production code, review PRs, and oversee testing across the pod.
Mentor the pod and champion a culture of rigor, velocity and auditable AI.