Publix Pharmacy · 4 days ago
AI Platform Architect
Lakeland, FL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expPublix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., known for its innovative technology solutions. As an AI Platform Architect, you will lead the adoption of AI at Publix, collaborating with various teams to enhance operational efficiency and drive innovation in AI projects.
Retail
Responsibilities
Developing and maintaining the enterprise AI platform roadmap aligned with Publix’s business objectives
Evaluating emerging AI technologies and platforms for scalability, security, and compliance
Establishing standards and best practices for AI platform adoption across the organization
Designing and developing robust, scalable, and secure AI platform architecture
Ensure integration with existing enterprise systems, data pipelines, and cloud environments
Optimizing the AI Platform infrastructure for performance, cost-efficiency, and high availability
Producing architecture documentation and deliverables, including Architecture Plans, ADRs, proofs-of-concepts, standards, and roadmaps
Providing leadership, knowledge, and experience to teams on the architecture, design, and delivery of cost-effective and sustainable AI solutions
Providing training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to team members
Qualification
Required
Must have a bachelor's degree in computer science, or an analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
8+ years of recent experience leading the analysis of complex business problems and translating business requirements into technology solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability, and total cost of ownership
5+ years of recent working experience as an Architect or technical lead on development projects
5+ years of recent experience working with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments, including databases, operating systems, application servers, web servers, messaging and message brokers, web services, workflow, security, and portals
1+ years of experience leading AI/ML platform initiatives (LLM platforms, MLOps, etc.)
1+ years of experience in designing, developing, and scaling AI-based solutions (such as RAG, Agentic Workflows, model routing, fine-tuning)
1+ years of experience in at least one of the major AI platforms (such as OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, or Google)
Preferred
Strong knowledge and experience with LLM toolchains and frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, OpenAI/Azure/Gemini agent development frameworks
Knowledge and experience with vector databases, and embedding/model selection
Strong knowledge and experience with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails for AI solutions
Strong knowledge and experience with API technologies such as REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, and API first development
Knowledge and experience in containerizing applications and container orchestration
Knowledge and experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Casandra
Knowledge and experience developing and deploying cloud solutions in Azure, GCP or AWS
Knowledge and experience with data streaming (Kafka), batch (Spark), data lake, and ETL/ELT platforms
Benefits
Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
401(k) retirement savings plan
Group health, dental and vision plans
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
Company
Publix Pharmacy
Publix proudly launched its first pharmacy in 1986. Today, we have expanded to over 1,300 locations, opening up to 40 new ones annually.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase