Technical Director, AI Enterprise Architect
Locus Robotics
$200,000–$300,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on individual contributor role responsible for leading a company-wide AI transformation initiative, from defining the strategic roadmap to architecting and building production-grade systems. Day-to-day work spans designing agentic workflows, LLM-powered platforms with RAG architectures, and data pipelines, while partnering with cross-functional leaders to redesign business processes into AI-native workflows. Suited to someone equally comfortable at the executive strategy level and writing production code.
Principal level · 5+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 3–10
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 $134,944 (middle half $104,979–$169,773). 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)
The role is titled 'Technical Director, AI Enterprise Architect' and is explicitly framed as a hands-on individual contributor (IC) with org-wide AI strategy authority and CEO/Board-level sponsorship — this maps to Principal-level scope despite the 5+ year minimum experience gate, which is unusually low for the stated responsibilities.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends AI/ML architecture (15-2051), enterprise systems architecture (15-1299), and software engineering (15-1252). The dominant day-to-day work — designing and deploying LLM-based production AI systems, RAG architectures, and agentic workflows — most closely aligns with Data Scientists (15-2051), but 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is a credible runner-up given the enterprise architect framing.
Location inferred as Massachusetts (Locus Robotics HQ in Wilmington, MA); the posting does not explicitly state a work location or remote policy.
The JD lists two separate '5+ years' gates — one for enterprise AI/digital transformation leadership and one for hands-on software/data/AI engineering. The overall years minimum is set to 5 (the minimum stated), though the combined scope implies a significantly more experienced candidate in practice.
GPT-4 and Claude are listed as examples of foundation models ('e.g., GPT-4, Claude, or equivalent'); they are captured as a single skill with alternatives to reflect the interchangeable framing.
Fine-tuning techniques (LoRA, PEFT, RLHF/DPO), embeddings, transformer architectures, multimodal AI, Lakehouse, and data catalogs appear in the 'Core Expertise' narrative section rather than the hard-gated 'Qualifications' block, so they are marked preferred.
Compensation includes base salary ($200K–$300K/year) plus bonus and equity; only the base range is quantified and captured here.
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