Senior Principal AI Solutions Architect

PTC Professional Services is building a formal strategy for how AI shapes our delivery, and we’re looking for a Senior Principal AI Solutions Architect to lead it. As PS’s AI subject matter expert for the Americas, you’ll define how our teams use AI on projects, make sure they’re fluent in the AI capabilities within PTC’s products, and help customers take AI from concept to production. With a strong pipeline of customer AI opportunities, this is a high-visibility role with room to shape the practice from the ground up, and potential to collaborate with AI centers of excellence across PTC globally.

Reporting to the Vice President of Americas Professional Services, you’ll work across Sales, Solution Consulting, Customer Success, Product Management and R&D, as well as with PTC’s other AI teams.

What You’ll Do

Your primary focus: building PTC’s AI delivery practice

• Shape the strategy: Develop and execute the strategy for how Professional Services uses AI in project delivery. Establish AI delivery standards, best practices for AI productivity, reusable assets and reference architectures, and AI-focused service offerings.

• Enable the team: Make sure PS teams are fluent in PTC’s AI product capabilities. Lead enablement programs and mentor Solution Architects, Consultants, Business Solutions Managers and Project/Program Managers.

You’ll also support key customer engagements

• Pre-sales: Partner with Sales and Solution Consulting on strategic AI opportunities. Run discovery workshops, define use cases and success criteria, validate technical feasibility, and support scoping, estimates, SOWs and roadmaps.

• Delivery: Serve as architectural lead on select AI implementations. Design end-to-end solutions across customer environments and PTC platforms, run architecture reviews, and resolve complex technical roadblocks.

The balance of this role will shift as the AI practice matures.

• 10+ years in enterprise software consulting, solution architecture, professional services or systems engineering, including recent years focused on AI

• Deep, hands-on AI expertise, including LLMs, multi-agent systems, prompt engineering and vector databases (e.g., LangChain/LangGraph)

• A track record of taking AI solutions from concept to production

• AI experience gained in a professional services organization or in the manufacturing space

• Experience supporting both pre-sales pursuits and implementation delivery

• Proficiency in Python and SQL, plus Java, Go or TypeScript

• Strong knowledge of enterprise, data and cloud architecture, API integration, and security and governance

• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills, and comfort working in an evolving environment

Nice to Have

• Industry experience in manufacturing, industrial products, automotive, aerospace and defense, medical devices, high tech or field service

• Experience with CAD, PLM, SLM, ALM or Digital Thread initiatives

• Large-scale data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka) and data science experience

This position is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future sponsorship from PTC., If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?

PTC carefully considers a wide variety of factors when determining compensation. The anticipated annual salary range for this position is between $149,000-$223,000. The salary range reflects a good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, candidates may be eligible for a performance-based bonus. Employees also have the opportunity to become a PTC shareholder through our employee share purchase program (ESPP), which allows for the purchase of discounted PTC stock. Certain roles may also be eligible for participation in our equity programs. Employees may be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and sick leave, tuition reimbursement, 401(k) contributions and employer match, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage and, if you are an office-assigned employee, a generous commuter subsidy. All total rewards and benefits programs are subject to applicable plan eligibility and other terms and conditions.

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