Solution Architect

About Artikate Studio

We're a deep-tech engineering firm that has been building software since 2016. We engineer AI-powered systems for defence institutions, government bodies, national-scale enterprises, and D2C brands — from a single AI module to entire mission-critical platforms.

About the role

We're hiring a Solution Architect to own the technical backbone of our most ambitious builds. You'll turn a brief into a buildable, secure, procurable system — the architecture, the integration design, the deployment topology, and the trade-offs — across our full range of work: AI/ML systems, defence command-and-control and computer vision, sovereign LLM driven systems, national-scale enterprise platforms, and digital commerce.

This is hands-on and client-facing. You'll lead pre-kickoff technical reviews, scope hard problems under real security and integration constraints, and stay accountable for what ships. The people who scope our projects own them — that's you.

What you'll architect

• End-to-end systems across edge, on-premise, air-gapped, and cloud (AWS / GCP) — with the right boundaries between them.
• Computer vision & object detection — multi-camera, multi-feed detection and inspection systems built for accuracy at scale.
• Integrated Command Systems — fusing multi-sensor and multi-camera feeds into a single operational picture, with real-time event correlation, alerting, role-based operator consoles, and redundancy / failover / high-availability design.
• Sovereign LLM & RAG — on-premise deployment of Llama-class models, GGUF quantisation, and RAG pipelines over private data corpora where no commercial cloud API is permitted.
• Air-gapped / LAN-only / zero-egress deployments and classified or sensitive data handling.
• National-scale enterprise platforms — high-concurrency systems, database sharding, telemetry/fleet intelligence, ERP and workflow automation, and analytics dashboards.
• Industrial & manufacturing vision — machine-vision inspection and monitoring, PLC/CNC and ERP integration, and harsh-environment fitment where applicable.
• MLOps — model registry, monitoring, and retraining pipelines; GPU-cluster architecture for on-prem and air-gapped inference.
• Security architecture — security-first posture from day one, and the procurement-grade hardware specification / BOM where systems are physical.
• Leading the pre-kickoff brief, technical survey and scope definition, and translating constraints into a written, shared design before code is written.

Must-have experience

• 4+ years architecting production systems across AI/ML and/or large-scale enterprise platforms — designs that actually shipped.
• Strong computer vision: object detection and multi-feed systems (PyTorch, YOLO-family) and what survives real deployment.
• LLM / RAG architecture: Llama-class models, RAG pipelines, LangChain, GGUF, Hugging Face.
• Cloud architecture on AWS and/or GCP, plus Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker.
• On-premise, air-gapped, and GPU-cluster deployment experience.
• MLOps: model lifecycle, monitoring, retraining.
• A genuine security mindset — air-gapped, zero-egress, and classified/sensitive data handling.
• Backend fluency (FastAPI / Django / Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis) and the ability to reason across the full stack.
• Ability to run a client-facing technical scoping session and produce a clear written design and scope.

Nice to have

• Defence / government / command system experience — multi-sensor fusion, real-time situational awareness, HA/failover, and comfort with strict NDAs and classified environments.
• Industrial / manufacturing systems — machine vision, PLC/CNC integration (OPC-UA, FANUC FOCAS, Modbus), and IATF-governed quality environments.
• ERP / SAP integration.
• Eligibility for, or willingness to undergo, security verification.

How we work

• Senior-led delivery — no hand-off to juniors after the pitch.
• 2-week sprint velocity — working software every fortnight, issues surface early.
• Defence-grade security baseline — air-gapped and zero-egress are everyday work.
• Embedded partnership — dedicated teams that treat the client's product as their own.
• IST-aligned — no timezone friction, reachable during client business hours.

Engagement details

• Location: Gurugram, with travel to client sites as engagements require.
• Type: Full-time, senior.
• Start: Immediate.