Lead Architect to product R&D team

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

AI for People defines what Silo.AI stands for. We want to build a world with safe human-centric AI that frees the human mind from manual labour and empowers human creativity. We are currently building a new product R&D team in Helsinki and now searching Lead Architect for the team!


As a Lead Architect, you will be building and leading the technical work of Silo.AI's product R&D team. You will have overall responsibility for software design, tooling and mentoring R&D team.

You will be the main contact between R&D and product managers & sales within Silo.AI. Your work will contain 25 % internal and external product/sales/business-oriented discussions.  From you, we would be expecting quickly take up on building the roadmap and moving the team forward on it while also directly contributing to the technical development with their expertise.

Our current tech stack and tools consist of for example Python, Node.js, Vue.js, React, MongoDB, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Bitbucket. Read more about our cases that we have made for Finnair in flight delay prediction and Ramboll in water quality prediction:

  • silo.ai/finnair-silo-ai-improve-situational-awareness-of-air-traffic/

  • silo.ai/how-artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-the-water-sector-case-ramboll/

Meet the team

Your closest team members will be your product R&D team consisting of Backend Developers and Lead AI Architect. This will be a new team for Silo.AI and you get to influence from the beginning the ways of working and technologies we will be using, together with your team. You will be working closely with our AI Scientists while building our new products.

What are we looking for from you

  • You’re still passionate about coding and focused on getting stronger in technology.

  • You make an active and visible example of how great software is built. You care more about the whole team's output than your own.

  • You are also passionate about guiding and mentoring other R&D members

  • You’re a great communicator with both technical and non-technical people and you push for the right balance between short and long term.

  • Basic experience in all areas of our stack: AI, data engineering, cloud systems, edge systems, backend, frontend, devops, testing, monitoring. You feel at home with system level design.

  • Desire and ability to quickly acquire broad high-level intuition of AI systems and solutions.

What Silo offers for you?

  • As we already know, AI will be affecting almost everyone's work and everyday life. With us you have a real chance of shaping the change that AI will bring to everyone of us.

  • You have the freedom and possibilities to help create our product R&D processes and the team from scratch.

  • The products you develop will have a key role in expanding and accelerating the use of AI in large scale real world applications.

  • Your closest colleagues will be an AI enthusiast mix of model developers and software experts working in the AI areas of computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing.

  • We aim for excellence by keep learning from the market, sharing our competence and looking for growth mindset. We will help your learning for example through our Learning Labs and Talent Coaching

Interested to joining us?

Send your application from the “apply” button and tell us why you are interested in the Lead Architect role at Silo.AI and what are you passionate about, along with relevant profiles (CV/LinkedIn/Github). Contact our Lead AI Solutions Architect Niko, +358 50 485 0513 between 10 am to 12 pm or by email to niko.vuokko @ silo.ai for details on the position. You can ask more about Silo.AI as a workplace from our Talent Acquisition Lead Jenni, +358 50 321 4978 or email to jenni.kivikoski @ silo.ai .

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

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Working at
Silo AI

Silo AI is the largest private AI lab in the Nordics – a trusted AI partner that brings competitive advantage to product R&D. We build AI-driven solutions and products to enable autonomous vehicles, industry 4.0, and smart devices, networks, and cities. Silo AI provides its customers unique access to world-class AI expertise, as well as the Silo OS infrastructure to speed up AI development and deployment. Established in 2017, Silo AI is on its path to becoming the European flagship AI company, with offices currently in Helsinki, Turku, Oulu, Stockholm, London and Palo Alto.

Read more about Silo AI

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