Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Requisition Id 16695 Overview: As a Senior AI Architect at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), you will operate at the intersection of advanced machine learning, software and systems architecture, and ORNL's enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The role is typically less about building individual models and more about designing, integrating, and governing end-to-end AI systems that can be deployed and sustained across research programs and mission operations. This includes architecting solutions that use large language models (LLMs), multimodal and foundation models, and hybrid deployments spanning on-premises HPC resources, controlled networks, and approved cloud services-ensuring these systems meet ORNL's requirements for scale, security, reliability, and scientific reproducibility. In a practical sense, the Senior AI Architect defines reference architectures for "AI at ORNL," including patterns for data ingestion and curation, training and...