Senior AI Architect - Seattle - Weyerhaeuser

Description

Weyerhaeuser is a recognized leader in sustainable forestry and wood products, committed to innovation, operational excellence, and responsible stewardship. As Senior AI Architect, you will define and evangelize AI architectures that power Weyerhaeuser's digital transformation. Spanning traditional machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI, this role ensures solutions are scalable, secure, and responsible — driving measurable business value across our timberlands, wood products, and corporate functions.

You will partner with business, data, and technology leaders — and external partners — to design and operationalize enterprise AI architectures built on governed, high-quality data. Your work will integrate AI models, services, and agents with technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, Azure, OpenAI, AWS, SAP, and Snowflake, ensuring alignment with Weyerhaeuser's Responsible AI and governance standards. Acting as a bridge between innovation and implementation, you'll enable scalable, trustworthy AI adoption across the enterprise — from supply chain optimization to geospatial and industrial automation.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Architecture Leadership: Define and evolve Weyerhaeuser's enterprise AI and agentic architecture to enable scalable, secure, and interoperable AI solutions across business domains. Establish standards for multi-agent ecosystems, generative AI reasoning pipelines, and MCP-based interoperability to support dynamic, context-aware AI applications that deliver measurable business outcomes.

• AI Platform and Framework Design: Architect and implement the foundational platform for Agentic and classic AI, encompassing model orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), memory systems, and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication frameworks. This includes support for traditional machine learning and optimization models that remain critical for forecasting, control, and decision-support use cases. Ensure alignment with enterprise data platforms, governance standards, and Responsible AI principles while enabling experimentation, automation, and adaptive learning across ML models, generative systems, and intelligent agents.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with business, data, product, and engineering teams (internal and external) to translate business opportunities into technical architectures that accelerate AI delivery. Collaborate with IT, cybersecurity, and enterprise architects to ensure AI systems integrate safely and sustainably within Weyerhaeuser's technology ecosystem.

• Mentorship and Evangelism: Guide engineers, data scientists, and solution architects in applying architectural best practices for AI and MLOps. Evangelize AI innovation through internal knowledge sharing, cross-functional partnerships, and external collaborations.

• Responsible and Governed AI: Embed Weyerhaeuser's Responsible AI principles — including safety, transparency, sustainability, and accountability — into every stage of the AI lifecycle. Bolster governance practices covering model lineage, monitoring, explainability, and continuous improvement.

• AI Systems Integration: Architect and oversee the integration of AI models, services, and agents into enterprise systems such as SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, and Azure, ensuring interoperability, reliability, and performance across applications, data, and workflows.

• Innovation and Scalability: Evaluate and prototype emerging AI technologies — including multi-agent systems, large language models, and generative AI platforms — to identify new opportunities for operational excellence and workforce augmentation.

• Standards, Tools, and Best Practices: Define and promote development standards, reusable components, and reference architectures that enable consistency, security, and speed across all AI initiatives. Champion modular, cloud-native, and API-driven design principles.

• Performance and Cost Optimization: Design architectures that balance compute efficiency, latency, and cost, ensuring AI systems deliver sustained business value at scale.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's or PhD in AI, Data Science, or a similar discipline preferred.

Experience: 8+ years of experience in AI architecture, data science, or software engineering, including large-scale production deployments of machine learning, deep learning, or AI-driven systems in enterprise environments.

Architecture & Integration: Demonstrated ability to design cloud-native and edge AI architectures, integrating models, APIs, and agents into enterprise technology such as SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, AWS, and Azure. Proficiency with multi-agent orchestration using Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interaction models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and context memory architectures.

Technical Expertise: Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade AI platforms leveraging both classic ML techniques (forecasting, optimization, predictive modeling) and modern generative and agentic frameworks. Proficiency with cloud-scale AI ecosystems such as Microsoft Copilot Azure, OpenAI, AWS, or GCP, and strong familiarity with Snowflake, SAP, and modern data-governance platforms.

Programming & Tools: Proficiency in Python and familiarity with SQL, R, or Java. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, and Hugging Face, and workflow orchestration or MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow).

Industrial & Edge AI: Experience deploying AI in manufacturing or field environments using IIoT data, sensor networks, and edge-compute platforms to enable real-time optimization and automation.

Geospatial AI: Awareness of geospatial data and AI applications (e.g., LiDAR, satellite imagery, and ESRI platforms) and how they inform resource management, sustainability, and operational planning.

Governance & Responsible AI: Experience implementing governance, monitoring, and Responsible AI practices that ensure safety, transparency, and reliability.

Collaboration & Leadership: Strong communicator and collaborator with the ability to translate business goals into technical architectures and influence cross-functional teams.

Strategic Mindset: Ability to align AI architecture decisions with business outcomes, operational efficiency, and sustainability objectives.

Continuous Learning: Committed to staying current with advances in AI, industrial automation, geospatial analytics, and cloud-edge integration.

Compensation: This role is eligible for our annual merit-increase program, and we are targeting a salary range of $135,500-$203,300 based on your level of skills, qualifications and experience. You will also be eligible for our Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 25% of base pay. Potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target.

This position is also eligible to receive between $32,000 in restrictive stock units on an annual basis, as part of our Long Term Incentive Plan.

Benefits: When you join our team, you and your dependents will be offered coverage under our comprehensive employee benefits plan, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. We offer a pre-tax Health Savings Account option which includes a company contribution. Other benefit options are also available such as voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs. We also support personal volunteerism, sponsor a host of diversity networks, promote mentoring, and provide training and development opportunities to help you chart your path to a fulfilling career.

Retirement: Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, which includes a paid company match in addition to our annual contribution equal to 5% of your base salary.

Paid Time Off or Vacation: We provide eligible employees who are scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week with 3-weeks of paid vacation to use during your first year of employment. In addition, after being employed for six months, eligible employees begin to accrue vacation for future use. We also recognize eleven paid holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours and paid parental leave for all full-time employees.

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Weyerhaeuser is an equal opportunity employer. Inclusion is one of our five core values and we strive to maintain a culture where all our people feel a sense of belonging, opportunity and shared purpose. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and supporting an equitable and inclusive environment that inspires people of all backgrounds to join, stay and thrive with our team.