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Publix Super Markets · 1 day ago

AI Platform Architect

Lakeland, FL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$132K/yr - $198K/yr

8+ years exp

Publix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., driven by a dynamic technology team delivering innovative solutions. As an AI Platform Architect, you will lead the adoption of AI, develop and maintain the enterprise AI platform roadmap, and establish standards for AI platform adoption across the organization.

Food and BeverageGroceryRetail

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

AI platform architectureAI/ML platform initiativesCloud solutions deploymentLLM toolchainsAPI technologiesNoSQL databasesData streamingTeam leadershipMentoringCommunication skills

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 Super Markets

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Founded in 1930, Publix Super Markets is the largest and fastest-growing employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States.

Founded in 1930

Lakeland, Florida, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.publix.com/

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