• Build and lead a team delivering the ingestion, retrieval, and inference layers that will power mission-critical deployments for commercial and federal entities with millions of public users. • Architect and deliver horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant systems capable of handling billions of documents and burst loads of 30K+ concurrent users. • Guide implementation of multimodal ingestion pipelines (eg PDF, HTML, DOCX, JSON, XML, PPTX, TIFF). • Oversee design and optimization of LLM-driven data ingestion and retrieval workflows. • Own optimization and tuning of high-throughput, low-latency production environments via async orchestration frameworks. • Establish performance benchmarking, compliance frameworks, and automated testing for scale. • You will balance technical leadership with people leadership, guiding architecture decisions, while also scaling and mentoring a high-performing team. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Executive Leadership, and Customer Success.