Senior AI Platform Architect
Sumitomo Pharma · Nashville, TN
$162,500–$203,100from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on designing and operating an enterprise AI platform within a regulated pharmaceutical environment. The work centers on architecting end-to-end ML and LLM-based solutions — including RAG pipelines, agent workflows, and MLOps/LLMOps practices — while building the infrastructure-as-code, reusable patterns, and governance controls that allow other teams to move AI use cases into production reliably and securely.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 8 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,450 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,650–6,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (7)
SOC classification is a judgement call: the role is a hands-on platform architect who writes production code (Python, Terraform) and builds AI/ML systems, which maps best to Software Developers (15-1252); however, the deep AI/ML/LLM focus could also support Data Scientists (15-2051), listed as the runner-up.
The 8+ years requirement is the overall role-level gate; the 3+ years of AI/ML experience is a sub-requirement within that and is captured in the AI/ML skills rather than as a separate total.
AWS is listed as 'AWS and/or Azure' in the requirements section — AWS is used as the primary name with Azure as an alternative, reflecting that either satisfies the requirement.
CI/CD is described as 'familiarity with' in the requirements paragraph, which is softer language, but it appears within the hard-requirements block alongside Python and Terraform; it is treated as a required skill on that basis.
RAG, vector search, and prompt engineering appear in the job duties/responsibilities narrative rather than in a discrete required-qualifications section, so they are treated as preferred context rather than hard gates.
The degree requirement states 'BS in Information Technology or related field' with no explicit equivalent-experience substitution offered, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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