Sr. Architect, AI Governance & Risk

Babel Street (recruiting via hatch I.T.) is hiring a Sr. Architect, AI Governance & Risk to lead the design and implementation of the company's AI trust framework across safety, privacy, security, bias/fairness, and transparency. The role translates Babel Street's AI Principles into policies, engineering standards, delivery gates, customer assurances, and reporting artifacts.

The architect collaborates cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Legal/Privacy, and Customer Success to embed governance into the AI lifecycle from design through production monitoring. Responsibilities span operationalizing AI principles into engineering standards, maintaining AI model/system inventories (including third-party providers), leading RFI/RFP responses and audit support, defining safety metrics in production, and coordinating AI security audits addressing vulnerabilities such as prompt injection.

The role is hybrid, based in Reston, VA or Somerville, MA.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in governance, risk, security, privacy, compliance, or systems architecture
• 3+ years supporting AI/ML systems in production
• Proficiency with AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 23894)
• Experience producing RFI/RFP responses and audit-ready documentation
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Assurance, Data Science, Public Policy, or related field