Associate Director - AI Infrastructure Architect (AI Factory)

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Annual base salary: CZK 1,120,210–2,080,390.

Company

hirify.global is a global pharmaceutical company developing medicines and supporting research and business operations with secure, compliant technology.

What you will do

• Own the AI infrastructure reference architecture and standards for training, fine-tuning, inference and retrieval-augmented workloads across public cloud and private AI environments.
• Define AI workload intake, architecture review, data classification, environment selection and production-readiness criteria.
• Set guardrails for sensitive data, model access, logging, monitoring, resilience, retention, cost and secure operations.
• Design GPU and accelerator capacity models, including shared pools, reservations, scheduling, quotas and burst-to-cloud patterns.
• Define MLOps and LLMOps reference chains covering model registries, versioning, evaluation, deployment, drift monitoring and decommissioning.
• Advise business, research, security, privacy and infrastructure stakeholders, maintain architecture decisions, evaluate emerging technologies and coach engineers and architects.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud or platform architecture, with a track record of designing and supporting enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Demonstrated experience building, deploying and operating AI and machine learning infrastructure in production.
• Experience moving AI solutions from proof of concept to scalable, governed and business-critical services.
• Strong knowledge of GPU and accelerator technologies, Kubernetes, container orchestration, Azure and AWS AI platforms.
• Hands-on experience with model serving, inference optimization, MLOps/LLMOps, and modern data and vector pipeline architectures.
• Understanding of identity and access management, observability, FinOps, cost optimization and secure AI platform operations.
• Familiarity with Responsible AI, including explainability, auditability, logging, human oversight and risk controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, engineering, security, privacy and business teams.

Nice to have

• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Additional languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor role with influence based on design quality, evidence and adoption rather than line management.
• Flexible and hybrid working options where possible.
• Insurance, retirement plans, wellbeing resources and global recognition programs.
• At least 14 weeks of paid parental leave and eligibility for a performance-based bonus.
• Commitment to pay equity, diversity, inclusion and reasonable accommodation during recruitment.