Lead AI Products Architect
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Posted 2 days ago
About the role
Role Summary
We seek a senior hands-on AI technical leader embedded within the AI Products Management Department . This role partners closely with Product Managers to translate product intent into scalable, secure, and production-ready AI system designs. Collaborate with the AI Research Team and the Delivery Team, the Lead AI Products Architect owns the technical quality bar across the AI product lifecycle – covering architecture, model performance, data readiness, and operational excellence. This role does not replace Engineering or Research. Instead, it acts as the technical backbone of AI Products, ensuring solutions are measurable, reliable, and commercially viable in production.
Key Responsibilities
- AI Product Architecture & Technical Design
- Own end-to-end technical architecture for AI products (GenAI, RAG, Agents, and ML), including inference services, orchestration, data pipelines, APIs, and integrations.
- Define reference architectures and reusable components (RAG modules, evaluation frameworks, prompt/versioning, feature stores, vector DB patterns, guardrails).
- Lead design reviews with Engineering , Platform , and Security teams to ensure scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
- Model Performance Criteria and Evaluation
- Define product-specific success metrics and acceptance criteria (accuracy, groundedness, latency, cost, safety, robustness, drift).
- Design offline and online evaluation strategies, e.g. A/B testing.
- Own the AI evaluation playbook (hallucination detection, retrieval quality, safety, jailbreak resistance; ML metrics such as precision/recall and calibration).
- Data Strategy & Readiness
- Own AI product data strategy: sources, contracts, quality checks, lineage, governance, privacy-by-design.
- Define data readiness gates across PoC, MVP, and Scale phases.
- Partner with Data Engineering on pipelines and continuous data quality monitoring.
- AI Operations
- Specify MLOps/LLMOps requirements: model registry, CI/CD, prompt/config versioning, observability, monitoring, rollback strategies.
- Define runtime controls including guardrails, policy enforcement, red-teaming, rate limiting, and audit logging.
- Technical Leadership
- Act as technical co-pilot to Product Managers: translate product requirements into system constraints and non-functional requirements.
- Identify risks early and propose pragmatic trade-offs.
- Mentor Product Managers on AI technical fundamentals
Required Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years experience in ML/AI engineering , data engineering , or AI solution architecture.
- Proven experience shipping production AI systems.
- Strong hands-on expertise in GenAI/RAG/LLM systems and ML evaluation.
- Deep understanding of model performance, retrieval systems, vector databases, data pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with agentic workflows and safety frameworks.
- Track record of building reusable AI platforms or components.
- Experience operating in heavily regulated environments.
Competencies
- Strong written technical communication in Arabic
- System-level thinking and pragmatic technical judgment.
- Product mindset focused on business outcomes.
- Coaching mindset toward Product Managers and delivery teams.