Hiring: Principal AI Infrastructure Architect Company: Huron Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 10:02:55 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Data Pipeline, Event-Driven, Infrastructure as Code About the job Experience: •10+ years of experience designing and building production cloud platforms, AI platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, or distributed systems, including 5+ years with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure. Required Skills: •Serve as hands-on technical lead for AI reference architecture, workload patterns, control-plane boundaries, model access, agent execution, and integration decisions. •Define and build approved patterns for Amazon Bedrock, model access, networking, identity, logging, data flow, and production deployment. •Design core AI control-plane patterns for registration, policy enforcement, usage tracking, attribution, quotas, audit reporting, and exception handling. •Build reusable infrastructure as code, deployment templates, automation, sandbox patterns, MCP or equivalent service mediation, and operational tooling. •Lead implementation of usage telemetry, token reporting, user attribution, project attribution, and cost-management data pipelines. •Partner with the AI Security, Governance, Knowledge, and Observability Engineer to implement controls, knowledge access, evaluation, and audit evidence through automation. •Use AI tools hands-on to accelerate architecture design, infrastructure coding, code review, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational improvement. •Review and guide priority workload onboarding to ensure use cases follow approved architecture and operating patterns. Qualifications: •Strong AWS architecture experience, including identity, networking, logging, observability, infrastructure as code, security boundaries, and production operations. •Strong hands-on engineering skills in at least one modern programming language and infrastructure automation framework. •Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for platform engineering, automation, code generation, code review, testing, or documentation. •Demonstrated capacity to design for security, auditability, cost visibility, operational reliability, and reuse. •Flexible living locations across the US. Ability to travel as needed. Compensation: •$190,000 - $265,000 / year •The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!