Whatyou'll do Niron Magnetics is seeking a
Software Architect, AI to define and evolve the technical architecture for AI-driven systems across manufacturing, R&D, and business operations. This role will be responsible for setting architectural direction, enabling scalable and reliable AI solutions, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure AI capabilities deliver real operational and business impact.
This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role for someone excited to build foundational AI systems in a high-growth, deep-tech manufacturing environment.
Define AI Architecture and Technical Strategy - Design and own the end-to-end architecture for AI and machine learning systems across data ingestion, model development, deployment, and monitoring.
- Establish architectural patterns and standards for scalable, secure, and maintainable AI platforms.
- Ensure AI systems integrate effectively with manufacturing systems (e.g., MES, ERP), laboratory tools, and enterprise software.
Enable AI-
Driven Innovation - Partner with Manufacturing, R&D, Quality, and Operations teams to identify high-value AI use cases (e.g., process optimization, quality prediction, anomaly detection).
- Translate business and technical requirements into robust AI system designs.
- Guide model lifecycle management, including experimentation, deployment, retraining, and performance monitoring.
Technical Leadership and Enablement - Act as a technical authority and advisor on AI architecture, best practices, and trade-offs.
- Review designs, mentor engineers and data scientists, and raise the technical bar across teams.
- Support build-vs-buy decisions and evaluate vendors, tools, and platforms.
Cross-
Functional Collaboration - Work closely with software, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural alignment and execution.
- Partner with IT and Security to ensure AI systems meet reliability, security, and compliance standards.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
What We're Looking For - 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data platforms, or AI/ML systems, with demonstrated architectural ownership.
- In-depth experience building applications on top of large language models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-weight models, or comparable) - including prompt design, function/tool calling, structured outputs, RAG architectures, and agent frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience integrating software with enterprise systems via REST, GraphQL, message queues, webhooks, and ETL pipelines
- Solid grounding in cloud architecture (Azure preferred), containerization (Docker), and at least one orchestration approach (Kubernetes and/or serverless preferred.).
- Demonstrated skills in Python, Rust, and R
- Strong understanding of modern AI/ML frameworks, data pipelines, cloud-native architectures, and MLOps concepts.
- Experience integrating AI systems with operational or industrial environments preferred.
- Ability to balance near-term delivery with long-term architectural vision.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort influencing without authority.
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
Nice to Have - Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or deep-tech environments.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- Experience with edge AI, time-series data, or physics-informed ML.
- Passion for clean tech, sustainable materials, or climate-positive innovation.
Our pay and benefits - Equity position in Niron via stock option grant
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k plan with company match
- Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
- Experience in a fun, high-performing, manufacturing environment
