Senior Principal AI Architect - US-CO-Loveland-Bldg E, United States
$196,190 - $326,980 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
You will shape reusable platforms, customer-facing solutions, and scalable adoption patterns that connect AI Labs investments to Keysight’s growth priorities and customer opportunities.
What you'll do
- Define and communicate an enterprise AI architecture vision aligning AI Labs investments with customer needs and emerging technology trends.
- Establish reusable architecture patterns that improve interoperability, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Drive architectural consistency across AI Platform, Models & Data Science, and Agentic Framework initiatives.
- Review major AI initiatives to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned to business value.
- Mentor architects, senior engineers, and product leaders through design reviews and technical guidance.
- Guide technology selection and intellectual property development to ensure AI Labs investments create durable technical advantage.
What you'll need
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience in senior technical architecture roles with increasing scope.
- Expertise in applied AI, machine learning systems, data platforms, software architecture, or AI-enabled product development.
- Experience with measurement instrumentation and test workflows in RF and digital domains.
- Strong understanding of modern AI system design, including data pipelines, MLOps, evaluation methods, and deployment patterns.
- Experience designing scalable, reusable, production-grade platforms or frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience building enterprise AI platforms, agentic systems, model development environments, data science platforms, or AI-enabled product ecosystems.
- Experience with agentic orchestration, LLM-based systems, retrieval-augmented generation, foundation models, model evaluation, AI governance, or domain-specific automation.
- Experience deploying models on hardware platforms, including real-time environments such as FPGAs, GPUs, or NPUs.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, compute governance, data governance, security review, software supply chain practices, and production operations.
- Background in architecture review boards, technical governance forums, design review processes, or enterprise technology standards.
- Experience working across centralized innovation teams and distributed business unit teams.
Skills: AI architecture, machine learning systems, MLOps, hardware platforms, FPGAs
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 74-day median for AI/ML Hardware Engineering roles.
AI/ML Hardware Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
509
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Median days open
74 d
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Median salary
$225k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (509 roles · 76 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 509 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 138 | 5917 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 38 d | 74 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $225k |
Skills observed across this category: AI architecture, machine learning systems, MLOps, hardware platforms, FPGAs
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 105 open roles · median 106 d
- NVIDIA · 84 open roles · median 73 d
- AMD · 43 open roles · median 66 d
- Micron Technology · 30 open roles · median 55 d
- Mobileye · 20 open roles · median 70 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 15 open roles · median 60 d
How we counted: 509 open AI/ML Hardware Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 76 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.