Principal AI Architect

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• Define the AI Vision for Commerce: Translate creative and transactional intent into agentic workflows that span discovery, personalization, and conversion.
• Lead Roadmap Strategy: Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to prioritize AI capabilities, including LLM-powered assistants, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and autonomous agents.
• Prototype and Evangelize: Build proof-of-concepts that demonstrate the power of agentic systems in commerce. Evangelize internally and externally through demos, talks, and documentation.
• Guide Technical Implementation: Partner with engineering teams to integrate AI services into Adobe Commerce, ensuring scalability, performance, and ethical alignment.
• Shape Data Strategy: Influence how semantic data is captured, embedded, and used to train and fine-tune models for commerce-specific use cases.
• Monitor and Optimize: Track model performance post-deployment, recommend improvements, and ensure continuous learning and adaptation.
• Be the Voice of AI: Represent Adobe Commerce’s AI strategy in cross-functional forums, customer engagements, and industry conversations.

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, AI/ML systems, or product innovation.
• Deep expertise in LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI/ML solutions in production environments.
• Strong coding skills in JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and at least one backend language (Java, Kotlin, Python).
• Familiarity with microservices, cloud-native architectures, and DevOps practices.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Passion for customer-centric design and ethical AI development.
• Undergraduate degree required; graduate degree in a quantitative field preferred.

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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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