Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
AI Architect (Director Level) – Remote (US)
Lead AI Strategy at Novanta
Novanta is seeking an experienced AI Architect to shape and lead our enterprise AI strategy. Reporting to the CIO, you’ll be responsible for identifying high-value AI opportunities, guiding technical execution, and ensuring solutions deliver measurable business impact across our global organization.
What you will do:
- Translate business goals into scalable AI use cases and success metrics
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and foundation models for enterprise fit
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and IT teams to build and deploy AI solutions
- Ensure data availability, privacy, and compliance across AI initiatives
- Design and oversee training, testing, and monitoring plans for AI models
- Maintain visibility into AI lifecycle, performance, and governance
- Advise on infrastructure needs for model development and deployment
- Stay ahead of regulatory, ethical, and risk considerations in AI adoption
What you will bring:
- 5+ years in IT solution development, including 2+ years in AI/ML and 2+ in data architecture or analytics
- Proven experience designing and deploying AI solutions in complex environments
- Strong understanding of model selection, data pipelines, and performance monitoring
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and external partners
- Familiarity with AI governance, compliance, and modernization of legacy systems
Why Novanta?
We build precision technologies that power innovation in healthcare and advanced manufacturing. Our AI initiatives support mission-critical applications—from surgical robotics to industrial automation. You’ll join a global team, work remotely, and help define how AI transforms real-world outcomes.
Benefits:
- The salary for this role will range from $160,400 to $256,600 annually based on full-time employment. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, etc.
- Certain roles may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
- Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.
Top Skills
What We Do
Novanta delivers innovations that matter for its medical and advanced industrial OEM customers. If you have a passion for solving complex technical problems that lead to breakthrough performance and that enhance people's lives, come join our growing team.
Here is a sample of the many exciting applications we serve:
• Innovations that ensure the safety of patients and efficient workflows in hospitals using our novel RFID technology
• Innovations in additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D metal printing, using our lightning fast lasers and laser beam steering sub-systems
• Innovations in minimally invasive surgery using our highly reliable insufflators, pumps and visualization systems
• Innovations in robotics and automation using our precision motors, encoders and drives for superior accuracy
• Innovations in smartphone production using our fast, accurate lasers and laser beam steering equipment along with our precision motion systems
The driving force behind our growth is the team of talented professionals who share our commitment to our values, and our passion for innovation and for our customers’ success.
Novanta has deep expertise in precision medicine and manufacturing, medical solutions, and robotics and automation:
Precision Medicine and Manufacturing:
• Continuous wave, ultrafast and CO2 lasers, along with laser beam steering components and sub-systems
Brands: ARGES, Cambridge Technology, Laser Quantum, Synrad
Medical Solutions:
Minimally Invasive Surgery:
• Insufflators, pumps and disposable tube sets; medical visualization systems, video processing and wireless imaging
Brands: NDS, Med X Change, Reach Technology, WOM
Detection & Analysis:
• RFID readers, machine vision solutions, barcode scanning, light and color measurement
Brands: JADAK
Robotics and Automation:
• Motors, encoders, servo drives, air bearing systems and integrated mechatronic solutions
Brands: ATI, Celera Motion (inc. Applimotion, Ingenia, MicroE, Zettlex, Westwind)
