AI Product Architect Director

FDB is seeking an AI Product Architect Director a senior individual contributor who blends deep technical architecture expertise with strategic product this role you will design and guide the next generation of AI-enabled systems using agentic workflows LLM-powered capabilities and responsible AI practices to transform healthcare data experiences.

This position is ideal for an entrepreneurial technical leader who loves building prototyping exploring new generative AI capabilities and translating them into real customer and business value. You will partner closely with Product Engineering and business stakeholders to shape priorities validate opportunities and deliver scalable reliable and safe AI systems.

This is a non-people-management Director role focused on technical impact architecture leadership and product innovation.

What Youll Do

Technical Architecture Leadership (60%)

• Own the end-to-end architecture for generative AI and agent-based systems including orchestration retrieval architectures vector storage context strategies and evaluation frameworks.
• Prototype and iterate quickly using modern AI tools (e.g. LangChain/LangGraph AutoGen CrewAI Azure OpenAI Claude).
• Define and maintain reference architectures reusable components and best practices for AI system reliability observability safety and compliance.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical architectures including APIs integration patterns and data workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to transition prototypes into production-grade systems.
• Lead or contribute to architectural reviews modeling risk assessments and design governance for AI initiatives.
• Ensure all AI solutions meet standards for security ethics explainability and responsible use.

Product Strategy & Innovation (40%)

• Identify high-value opportunities for generative and agentic AI across FDBs products workflows and customer experiences.
• Partner with Product Management to shape the AI roadmap define value hypotheses and validate use cases through experimentation and user research.
• Drive rapid prototyping concept testing and MVP definition to evaluate feasibility desirability and commercial impact.
• Establish technical success metrics for AI systems including performance safety ROI and adoption signals.
• Communicate trade-offs and architectural considerations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Serve as a thought partner to business and product leaders helping FDB build differentiated AI-powered capabilities.

Youll Excel In This Role If You

• Bring a strong technical foundation in ML/AI systems including LLMs embeddings RAG and agentic patterns.
• Have operated as a hands-on architect staff/principal engineer or AI systems designer.
• Are comfortable exploring experimenting and moving quickly from idea prototype architecture.
• Understand how to connect business outcomes to technical design decisions.
• Can communicate complexity simply and influence cross-functional teams without authority.
• Thrive in high-ambiguity environments and enjoy shaping greenfield AI initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years in engineering technical architecture AI/ML systems or related fields.
• 3 years hands-on experience building or deploying GenAI LLM RAG or agent-based systems.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting complex distributed systems.
• Experience partnering closely with Product on strategy discovery and prioritization.
• Expertise in prompt engineering model evaluation and rapid AI prototyping.
• Familiarity with Azure ecosystem vector databases orchestration frameworks and modern AI tooling.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to executives customers and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare data clinical solutions or highly regulated environments.
• Certifications in product strategy Agile or AI/ML (PMC CSPO PSPO AZ-305 etc.).
• Experience with responsible AI frameworks safety engineering and governance models.
• Hands-on experience with AI-accelerated development tools (Cursor Cline Claude Code etc.).

What Success Looks Like

Within 90 days:

• Establish core GenAI architectural principles and evaluation frameworks.
• Deliver 12 functional prototypes validating new AI-enabled workflows.
• Align with Product on prioritized AI opportunity areas.

Within 6 months:

• Deliver architecture for at least one AI-enabled product or major workflow enhancement.
• Stand up reusable AI capabilities and patterns that increase engineering velocity.
• Demonstrate measurable customer or internal value from AI-driven improvements.

About FDB:FDB is the leading provider of drug and medical device knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide FDB enables our information system developer partners to deliver valuable useful and differentiated solutions. We offer more than three decades of experience in transforming medical knowledge into actionable targeted and effective solutions that help improve patient safety operational efficiency and healthcare outcomes. For a complete look at our solutions and services please visit or follow us on LinkedIn .

We value Integrity Respect Responsibility Teamwork and Creativity. Our offices in South San Francisco and Indianapolis have been awarded with Top Workplaces honors by The Bay Area News Group and the Indy Star since 2016 (the Top Workplaces honors are based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey by a leading research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace improvement). FDB offers competitive salaries and extensive benefits including medical dental vision long term disability life insurance and matching 401k.

We are an Equal opportunity employer vets/disabled. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religious creed national origin physical or mental disability protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

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In accordance with applicable law FDB is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in Indianapolis IN. The reasonable estimate $160000 - $185000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in location. If this role is open to candidates outside of location the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidates starting salary will be based on a number of permissible non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to skills and experience training certifications and education.

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental vision life and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending savings account; paid holidays; paid time off; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.