AI Platform Architect

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee‑owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states. From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership. Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix.

Location:

Flexible Hybrid (8 days per month in Lakeland, FL)
Work Model:

Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

• Developing and maintaining the enterprise AI platform roadmap aligned with Publix’s business objectives.
• Evaluating emerging AI technologies and platforms for scalability, security, and compliance.
• Establishing standards and best practices for AI platform adoption across the organization.
• Designing and developing robust, scalable, and secure AI platform architecture.
• Ensure integration with existing enterprise systems, data pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Optimizing the AI Platform infrastructure for performance, cost‑efficiency, and high availability.
• Producing architecture documentation and deliverables, including Architecture Plans, ADRs, proofs‑of‑concepts, standards, and roadmaps.
• Providing leadership, knowledge, and experience to teams on the architecture, design, and delivery of cost‑effective and sustainable AI solutions.
• Providing training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to team members.

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, or an analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of recent experience leading the analysis of complex business problems and translating business requirements into technology solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross‑system interdependencies, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
• 5+ years of recent working experience as an Architect or technical lead on development projects.
• 5+ years of recent experience working with multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments, including databases, operating systems, application servers, web servers, messaging and message brokers, web services, workflow, security, and portals.
• 1+ years of experience leading AI/ML platform initiatives (LLM platforms, MLOps, etc.).
• 1+ years of experience in designing, developing, and scaling AI‑based solutions (such as RAG, Agentic Workflows, model routing, fine‑tuning).
• 1+ years of experience in at least one of the major AI platforms (such as OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, or Google).

• Strong knowledge and experience with LLM tool chains and frameworks such as Lang Chain, Llama Index, Hugging Face, OpenAI/Azure/Gemini agent development frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience with vector databases, and embedding/model selection.
• Strong knowledge and experience with prompt engineering, evaluation, and guardrails for AI solutions.
• Strong knowledge and experience with API technologies such as REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, and API first development.
• Knowledge and experience in containerizing applications and container orchestration.
• Knowledge and experience working with No
  
  SQL databases such as Mongo
  
  DB or Casandra.
• Knowledge and experience developing and deploying cloud solutions in Azure, GCP or AWS.
• Knowledge and experience with data streaming (Kafka), batch (Spark), data lake, and ETL/ELT platforms.

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost.
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately‑held stock.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Group health, dental and vision plans.
• Paid Time Off.
• Short‑ and long‑term disability insurance.
• Free hot lunches (buffet‑style) at facilities with a cafeteria.
• Visit our website to see all of our benefits.

As a year‑end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro‑rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time‑sensitive emails that could require action within 24‑48 hours. Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.