Principal or Senior AI/ML Architect

Stratus, deriving from the Latin term meaning 'layer', offers an advanced set of MEP specific solutions that seamlessly layer across a contractor's entire workflow from design to fabrication to installation. Our team of seasoned industry experts, skilled technology leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs understands that fabrication does not occur in isolation, and increasingly, it may not happen within your own fabrication shop. Through close relationships with our customers—who include some of the most innovative and largest MEP contractors—we have developed a suite of Stratus tools to digitize, automate, and optimize piping, plumbing, sheet metal, and electrical contracting. Stratus provides the software layer an MEP Contractor needs to optimize profits with true "Data Driven Contracting."

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Principal AI/ML Architect owns architectural direction for the Intelligence and Agentic Workflows pillars of the Stratus Intelligence Platform. This role sets the technical direction every AI/ML and agentic project builds against, and is accountable for the long-term coherence, scalability, and trustworthiness of the AI-enabled platform.

This is a player-coach role. Most time is spent hands-on: designing solutions, prototyping, leveraging AI tools, writing reference implementations, and reviewing critical PRs. The organizing principle is Compounding Intelligence: every AI and agentic project deepens the domain substrate that makes the platform defensible.

This role works closely with the Senior Data Architect on the canonical data layer, with the AI/ML Engineering Lead on capability execution, and with the Fabricate pillar architects on cross-pillar coherence.

The three load-bearing priorities in year one

* AI/ML Platform evolution. Architect the Intelligence layer (data, training, learning, reasoning) and the Agentic layer (workflow automation, agentic UX). Stand up agent-friendly platform surfaces (MCP, Agent, or what fit...