AI Enterprise Architect

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As Ford accelerates its enterprise-wide digital and AI transformation, the AI Advancement Center is expanding its ability to design, build and deploy secure, high-performing AI platforms that can be reused across business functions and geographies.

As a Principal AI Architect, you will define the architectural vision and technical standards for enterprise AI platforms, connecting strategic business requirements with engineering execution.

You will work across engineering, data, cloud, cybersecurity and business teams to establish scalable patterns for Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), model serving, data processing and AI governance.

This is a senior technical leadership role with significant enterprise influence. Your work will help Ford accelerate AI adoption while improving platform reliability, security, reusability and cost efficiency.

Ford’s AI Advancement Center is looking for a Principal AI Architect – Enterprise GenAI & AI Platforms to define and lead the architecture of enterprise-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI (GenAI) platforms. The role will establish reusable architecture patterns, technical standards, governance and platform capabilities that enable AI solutions to scale securely and efficiently across Ford. The successful candidate will combine deep hands-on AI and distributed-systems expertise with the ability to influence engineering teams, business leaders and senior stakeholders.