AI/ML Platform Architect

AI/ML Platform Architect

Location Lawrence, KS 66047 Date Posted August 11, 2026 Job ID 15245 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Technology has been engaged to conduct a search for an experienced AI/ML Platform Architect for our client, a rapidly growing cybersecurity company building AI-driven solutions for enterprise security! This is a full-time, direct hire position offering a 100% remote schedule (EST or CST preferred).

POSITION OVERVIEW

Define the AI roadmap, make key architectural decisions, and write production code alongside the engineering team. Develop a custom AI engine designed to unify fragmented security signals into actionable enterprise insights. Work closely with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, partners, and customers to help shape the future of the AI-driven platform.

PERKS

• Competitive annual salary up to $200k + bonus & equity

• 100% employer-paid healthcare

• Unlimited PTO

• Fully remote work environment

• Opportunity to join a recently funded, early-stage cybersecurity company

• High visibility and ownership over the company's AI strategy and platform

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the AI/ML architecture and roadmap, translating business and customer needs into scalable, production-ready AI capabilities.

• Design, build, and optimize custom AI/ML solutions, including large-scale data pipelines, real-time processing, and ML workflows.

• Stay hands-on in the code, contributing directly to production engineering while making key architectural and technical decisions.

• Drive rapid iteration and experimentation while ensuring AI systems meet security, compliance, governance, and data protection standards.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, customers, and partners to shape AI capabilities and ecosystem integrations.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and data scientists while contributing to long-term AI and product strategy.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of software architecture experience with a strong focus on AI/ML, distributed systems, and production software.

• Proven experience building and shipping custom AI-powered products from the ground up, including hands-on experience with AI models.

• Strong data engineering experience across large-scale data pipelines, ETL, streaming, and ML workflows.

• Production experience with Python, Java, and AWS; familiarity with cybersecurity, cloud, identity, or security posture management is strongly preferred.

• Startup or early-stage experience with a demonstrated ability to take a vision from strategy through execution in an ambiguous, resource-constrained environment.

• Strong communicator and collaborative team player with the ability to bridge technical concepts with business and customer outcomes.

• Hands-on builder mentality with a track record of taking ownership, making smart technical tradeoffs, and delivering results.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

This full-time position offers an annual base salary up to $200k, commensurate with experience, plus bonus & equity. The organization also provides 100% employer-paid healthcare and unlimited PTO.

ABOUT OUR FIRM

Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times. Additional information about our firm can also be found online.

Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.