Our story : At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.” : Our Values : Champion People - be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs. : Grow with purpose - Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives. : Be Alight - act with integrity, be real and empower others. : It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation. : With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work. : Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. : AI / ML Architect (Hands-On | Individual Contributor) : Experience : 8-10 years total experience with 5+ years in AI / ML systems and strong hands-on coding skills. : Role Summary : We are looking for a hands-on AI / ML Architect who will work as an Individual Contributor, designing, building and deploying scalable AI / ML solutions. This role is NOT people-management focused - you will actively write production grade code, build models, architect ML platforms, and collaborate closely with cross functional engineering, product, and domain teams. : What You’ll Do :



We are currently seeking an experienced AI Architect who will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy AI-powered features and tools that optimize employee experiences and drive business outcomes. :

- Design and develop AI paved paths for the Alight engineering organization. :

Stay up to date with new tools and technologies and evaluating their potential impact on the business. :

- Work with stakeholders to develop and tune algorithms to address business needs. You should be able to effectively communicate your ideas in non-technical terms to help educate business partners :

- Evaluate, fine‑tune, and deploy LLMs and foundation models; implement RAG, guardrails, and prompt engineering best practices (conversant with Github Copilot). :

- Conversant with LLM security practices - Secure model deployment, Input validation, Data verification (guardrails) etc. :

- Write production quality Python code for :

- Feature Engineering :

- Model evaluation :

- Interface services (APIs) :

- Conversant with Spring AI - building MCPs, tools, pre-plugin and post-plugin etc. :

- Build high performant Ingestion pipelines. :

- Expertise across cloud (AWS), data engineering, ML/GenAI and data ingestion techniques :

- Work with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins) :

- Mentor engineers on ML best practices (without direct people management) :

- Collaborate on a high-performing, agile team with a global presence : What You’ll Need :

- Overall, 8 -10 years of experience into Data Engineering, Ingestion,



AI ML / Gen AI related projects. :

- Specifically, AI / Gen AI / ML project(s) with 5+ years of experience :

- Master’s degree with preferred concentrations in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, Actuarial Science, Engineering, or related field. :

- Experience writing in Python or Spark (ScalaSpark or PySpark) and with popular machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and conversant with JAVA (Spring AI) :

- Conversant with Spring boot services :

- AI/ML architects should have experience with data preparation and data engineering tasks such as data cleaning, feature engineering, and data transformation :

- Knowledge of deep learning architectures and techniques, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and reinforcement learning. :

- Familiarity with AWS data and data science tools including SageMaker, Glue, Lambdas, etc. :

- Experience in Agile and DevOps development process :

- Must be able to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience : Benefits : We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options. : Our commitment to Inclusion : We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more cutting-edge, and more successful. :

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