Chesterfield, MO

Salary
$150,000
Posted
Jul 21, 2026
Location
Chesterfield, MO
Last confirmed open
Jul 23, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior technical leadership role focused on architecting and delivering enterprise-scale AI and software systems. Day-to-day work spans designing AI-driven platforms, setting engineering standards across MLOps, DevOps, and cloud architecture, and mentoring engineering teams. The role suits an experienced software architect with a strong AI/ML background who is equally comfortable shaping long-term technical strategy and working across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Senior level · 7+ years

Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.

Must have (9)
AI/ML · 2+ yrsAzure, AWS or GCPdeep learningNLPcomputer visiongenerative AIrelational databases · 5+ yrsMLOpsCI/CD
Nice to have (1)
microservices

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What gives you an edge
NLP5%deep learning6%computer vision8%MLOps8%AI/ML12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
relational databases51%CI/CD45%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The title is 'Principal AI Software Architect,' but the scope and experience requirements (7+ years total, 2+ years AI/ML) are consistent with a Senior-level individual contributor rather than a true Principal/org-wide authority. The 'Principal' label appears to be a title convention rather than a reflection of org-wide technical authority.

The cloud platform requirement lists Azure, AWS, and GCP as interchangeable options ('such as'); Azure is listed first and used as the primary skill name with the others as alternatives.

A Bachelor's degree is listed but the JD explicitly states 'equivalent professional experience may be considered,' so the degree requirement is set to None.

Cloud-native architecture and microservices appear only under a 'preferred' qualifier at the end of the posting and are marked accordingly.

The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) given its primary focus on architecting and building AI-driven software platforms; Data Scientists (15-2051) is noted as a plausible alternative given the depth of ML/AI emphasis.

Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud-native architecture.

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