Lead Solution Architect, Physical AI

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in customer engagement, solution design, or technology delivery, with 3 - 5 years of leadership experience
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with senior client leaders, as well as internal WWT team members, driving towards a strategic solution
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and conceive creative solutions to intricate or ambiguous problems within collaborative team settings
• Technical mastery of one or more key domains
• Team leadership skills, ability to orchestrate teams in developing multiple solutions
• Production computer vision: hands-on depth across detection, segmentation and tracking, video analytics on streaming and recorded footage, and working knowledge of vision language model approaches. Has taken a model from a labeled dataset to a monitored deployment and dealt with drift, lighting, occlusion and camera changes in a real facility.
• Visual data quality: understands that model performance is bounded by what the sensor delivers, and designs for lighting, weather, lens contamination, compression and dropped frames from the first architecture review, not after the pilot breaks.
• Edge deployment: experience deploying inference on NVIDIA Jetson or on-prem GPU hardware, including model optimization (ONNX, TensorRT), containerization and the tradeoffs between edge, on-prem and cloud inference.
• Video and camera integration: comfortable with RTSP and ONVIF, GStreamer or equivalent pipelines, and integrating with commercial video management systems and existing camera estates.
• Platform fluency: working experience with at least one commercial vision AI or machine learning platform covering data curation, labeling, training, deployment and monitoring, and a point of view on where these platforms help and where they get in the way.
• Enterprise integration: experience connecting vision outputs to the systems a plant, utility or venue already runs on (MES, SCADA, historians, work-order or incident tools) and alerting through the channels operators actually watch.
• Scoping and estimation: has written the technical portion of a statement of work, sized the effort, and been accountable when the estimate was wrong.
• Customer presence: able to hold the room with a plant manager, a director of digital technology and a CIO in the same week, and translate between them without overclaiming.
• Autonomy: comfortable being the first architect on a new team, with ambiguity about tools, process and org structure, and able to set standards others follow.
• Preferred: NVIDIA stack (DeepStream, Metropolis microservices, Triton, Isaac or Omniverse).
• Preferred: digital twin and simulation familiarity (Omniverse, Unity or Unreal) sufficient to collaborate where vision and simulation converge.
• Preferred: domain exposure in manufacturing quality or throughput, utility field and vegetation operations, or venue and stadium operations.
• Preferred: LiDAR and 3D point cloud processing and spatial reasoning.
• Preferred: Robotics integration experience (ROS 2, AMR or robot arm platforms, robot perception).
• Preferred: prior work inside a technology partner program or co-sell motion, including resell versus referral economics.

Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $140,000 to $175,000 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that are not included in the base pay.

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. When it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing: Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Medical Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement, Day of Caring
• Additional Perks: Family Planning Benefits, Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital, Voluntary ID Theft, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program

Note: This is not an all-encompassing list and should not be used as a complete description of the plan’s benefits. For more information, see our US benefits website at wwt.com/us-benefits.

We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for all!

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