Cencora

AI Architect/AI Engineer – Generative & Agentic AI

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3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end architecture for enterprise Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions from concept through production.
  • Lead rapid proof-of-concept and MVP development to validate use cases and reduce technical risk.
  • Architect AI platforms using LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and multi-agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Design API-first architectures using REST and GraphQL for downstream applications and enterprise systems.
  • Define technology selections, architecture standards, prompt engineering practices, model evaluation, AI governance, and Responsible AI practices.
  • Guide MLOps and LLMOps practices for deployment, monitoring, and model and agent lifecycle management.
  • Lead architecture reviews, present designs to executives and engineers, and drive stakeholder alignment.
  • Mentor AI engineers and establish coding and architecture standards.
  • Evaluate and select cloud-native AI services based on scalability, cost, security, and performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field.
  • At least 6 years of overall IT experience spanning software engineering, cloud architecture, and/or AI/ML.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on architecture experience specifically in Generative AI or Agentic AI systems.
  • Strong expertise in Python and modern AI development frameworks.
  • Experience architecting LLM solutions using technologies such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, or open-weight models.
  • Deep understanding of RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding models.
  • Experience architecting on at least one major cloud platform, including native AI services.
  • Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, containerization, observability, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Strong grounding in AI governance, security, compliance, and Responsible AI practices.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to present architecture to executives and engineers.
  • Experience with state management and persistent memory for long-running autonomous agents is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol and emerging AI agent ecosystems is preferred.
  • Experience with AI observability and evaluation tooling such as LangSmith, Ragas, Langfuse, or custom evaluation harnesses is preferred.
  • Prior consulting, client-facing, or forward-deployed architecture experience is preferred.
  • Relevant cloud certifications are preferred.
  • Experience with NL-to-SQL, knowledge graphs, or GraphRAG-style architecture is preferred.
  • Healthcare distribution, specialty pharma data, or healthcare EMR/EHR systems experience, including HL7, FHIR, claims, or NDC-level data, is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision care benefits.
  • Support for working families, including possible backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.
  • Training programs, professional development resources, mentorship programs, employee resource groups, and volunteer activities.
  • Full-time position.
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