Principal AI Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and evolve a scalable and secure AI platform and reference architecture that enables rapid development of AI-powered product capabilities

• Drive strategic decision making across model selection, fine-tuning, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), agent frameworks, data pipelines, and inference optimization

• Evaluate and integrate open source and commercial LLMs, vector databases, feature stores, and MLOps platforms to accelerate AI adoption

• Collaborate with product management, engineering, architecture, and UX to define AI requirements, priorities, and architectural direction

• Lead and influence engineering teams through both direct and indirect contributions, fostering a culture of innovation and architectural excellence

• Participate in and lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and long-term platform planning

• Provide architectural direction for building Agentic AI systems, including workflow orchestration, multi-agent collaboration, context management, safety controls, and autonomous decision-making frameworks

• Design and implement LLMOps and AIOps practices for production agent systems

• Drive observability and AIOps practices for monitoring agent behavior and system performance

• Define guardrails for agent interactions, memory usage, and context boundaries to ensure safety and reliability

• Define and enforce target state and reference architectures, principles, guardrails, and standards for AI/ML, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, ethical frameworks (e.g., responsible AI), and regulatory guidelines (GDPR, NIST AI RMF).

• Establish processes for extracting metadata and implement metadata management for granular access control

• Define AI/ML technical capabilities—including generative AI systems, data pipelines, model deployment strategies, MLOps frameworks etc.

• Define AI reference architecture, standards, and best practices.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as a senior, lead, or principal engineer or architect, including hands on experience with AI and ML systems

• Strong proficiency in programming languages commonly used in AI such as Python, Java, TypeScript or Node.js, or similar

• Expert-level proficiency in Python; experience with frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen

• Extensive experience with AI and ML technologies including large language models, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures, and model serving frameworks

• Hands on experience with Agentic AI patterns including autonomous agents, tool use, multi agent coordination, and goal directed action planning

• Strong background in cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, or GCP including containerization, serverless technologies, and distributed systems

• Experience designing secure AI systems with emphasis on data privacy, encryption, compliance, and responsible AI practices

• Solid understanding of API integration patterns, messaging systems, and event driven architectures

• Demonstrated ability to lead large scale architectural initiatives and influence cross functional technical decisions

• Excellent communication, problem solving, and technical leadership skills

• Hands on experience with modern architecture paradigms including microservices, domain driven design, and platform engineering

• Experience implementing scalable, distributed systems and high-performance AI pipelines

This position is an excellent opportunity to work with cutting edge technology, while solving real business problems and developing an advanced technology strategy. If you are passionate about technology and ready to tackle exciting challenges, we encourage you to apply!

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