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Private AI architects and engineers collaborating on secure enterprise AI infrastructure

Careers at Sovereign SLM Labs

Build the AI enterprises can truly own.

Explore remote private AI careers spanning AI architecture, applied AI engineering, RAG, enterprise SLMs, LLMOps, and governed data platforms.

Why join us

Do work that moves private AI from promise to production.

Build pathbreaking technology

Work on private enterprise AI, SLM orchestration, secure RAG, and governed systems in a fast-emerging specialist field.

Help build the business

Shape the product, architecture, customer proposition, delivery playbooks, and the company—not just a narrow slice of delivery.

Work directly with founders

Collaborate closely with experienced technology leaders across enterprise markets and multiple continents.

Remote and flexible

Work fully remotely with disciplined online collaboration. Full-time, part-time, consulting, and contract arrangements are open.

Open positions

Open private AI jobs across architecture, engineering, and data.

We are hiring a Principal AI Architect, Senior Data Engineer, and Senior AI Engineer to make enterprise AI secure, useful, observable, and truly controllable.

Enterprise AI Architecture

Principal AI Architect

Own end-to-end architecture for secure, scalable, model-agnostic private AI platforms.

10–15 yearsRemoteFlexible engagement
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Data & Knowledge Engineering

Senior Data Engineer

Build the governed data and knowledge foundation for private AI, secure retrieval, and auditable workflows.

5–8 yearsRemoteFlexible engagement
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Applied AI & Product Engineering

Senior AI Engineer

Productionize private AI orchestration, task-specific SLMs, RAG, model routing, and enterprise integrations.

4–7 yearsRemoteFlexible engagement
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10–15 years · Fully remote

Principal AI Architect

The role

Translate business workflows, data sensitivity, governance expectations, and infrastructure constraints into secure, scalable architectures spanning data, models, orchestration, integrations, deployment, observability, and human oversight.

What you will do

  • Lead technical discovery with enterprise executives, architects, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders.
  • Define end-to-end private AI architectures across identity, policy, data, tools, models, orchestration, validation, workflow, and learning.
  • Shape provider-neutral model strategies spanning deterministic rules, SLMs, private RAG, specialist models, and larger LLMs.
  • Design secure enterprise integrations, governance controls, model routing, and on-premises, private-cloud, hybrid, or disconnected deployments.
  • Guide AI and Data Engineers through design, build, testing, production readiness, and technical risk management.
  • Create reusable reference architectures, accelerators, templates, and technical playbooks.

What you bring

  • 10–15 years in technology, including 5+ years in AI, ML, data, cloud, platform, or enterprise architecture.
  • 2–3+ years designing production GenAI, LLM, SLM, RAG, or AI orchestration systems.
  • Strength in distributed systems, model routing, orchestration, secure RAG, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
  • Practical knowledge of private deployment, GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes, model serving, IAM, encryption, isolation, and observability.
  • Experience leading enterprise design reviews and customer implementations; regulated-industry experience is strongly preferred.

You will thrive here if: you combine deep technical judgment with commercial awareness and can move comfortably between executive conversations and hands-on engineering decisions.

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5–8 years · Fully remote

Senior Data Engineer

The role

Design and build the secure foundation that turns structured and unstructured enterprise information into trusted, permission-aware, traceable context for private AI orchestration and SLMs.

What you will do

  • Build secure ingestion from ERP, CRM, DMS, databases, APIs, spreadsheets, repositories, and legacy applications.
  • Create canonical models and pipelines for private RAG, enterprise search, AI workflows, evaluation, analytics, and fine-tuning.
  • Develop document processing for contracts, claims, policies, manuals, emails, PDFs, and other unstructured sources.
  • Implement metadata, lineage, versioning, source traceability, vector and keyword indexes, and permission-aware retrieval.
  • Establish automated data quality, reconciliation, schema validation, anomaly monitoring, isolation, encryption, and masking.
  • Document source systems, transformations, data contracts, dependencies, runbooks, and production operations.

What you bring

  • 5–8 years of hands-on data engineering, with 2+ years supporting AI, ML, search, analytics, or RAG.
  • Strong Python and advanced SQL plus production ETL/ELT and orchestration experience.
  • Hands-on experience with tools such as Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Spark, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or Databricks.
  • Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, search indexes, data modelling, lineage, observability, and secure integration patterns.
  • Production experience across cloud, private cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments; regulated-data experience is preferred.

You will thrive here if: you know enterprise AI quality depends as much on data quality, permissions, metadata, lineage, and reliability as it does on model capability.

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4–7 years · Fully remote

Senior AI Engineer

The role

Work between applied AI research and production software engineering, moving use cases from rapid prototype to reliable, secure enterprise deployment.

What you will do

  • Build private AI workflows for retrieval, document processing, extraction, classification, summarization, recommendations, and workflow assistance.
  • Implement secure RAG and task-specific SLM solutions over enterprise documents, databases, policies, contracts, tickets, and knowledge stores.
  • Develop model routing across rules, specialist SLMs, retrieval models, and larger LLMs.
  • Fine-tune, adapt, quantize, and optimize models for customer terminology, tasks, and infrastructure.
  • Build validation, fallback, retries, timeouts, human escalation, evaluation, citations, version controls, and observability.
  • Contribute reusable orchestration components, connectors, evaluators, guardrails, and deployment components.

What you bring

  • 4–7 years in software engineering, ML, NLP, or applied AI, including 2+ years with LLMs, SLMs, RAG, or orchestration.
  • Strong Python, software engineering, PyTorch, Hugging Face, structured outputs, function calling, and tool use.
  • Experience with retrieval, orchestration frameworks, model serving, fine-tuning, quantization, and inference optimization.
  • Production skills across FastAPI, APIs, event-driven services, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLOps or LLMOps, tracing, and monitoring.
  • Demonstrated production deployment experience; work with enterprise APIs or customer-facing AI products is preferred.

You will thrive here if: you experiment quickly while maintaining the discipline needed for secure, observable, testable, and maintainable enterprise systems.

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What we value

Own the outcome. Stay close to the engineering.

We value provider-neutral judgment, clear communication, security and governance awareness, disciplined documentation, and the ability to balance speed with production reliability.

Ready to build more than technology?

Send us your résumé or LinkedIn profile and tell us which role fits your experience.

careers@sovereignslmlabs.com