Principal AI Architect
SecurityScorecard21 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Own system design for agentic capabilities, including orchestration, context and state, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns.
- Write technical design reviews, design documents, standards, and decision records that guide architectural direction.
- Prototype architectural decisions before teams commit to them at scale.
- Partner with Data Science to integrate agent and model work with APIs, event streaming, storage, and broader platform services.
- Review engineering designs and provide substantive feedback on architecture and risk.
- Build consensus across engineering teams and drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and communicate architectural trade-offs to executives and customers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience as a senior, staff, or principal-level architect or technical lead designing production systems.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, service boundaries, consistency models, event-driven architecture, API design, and reliable operation at scale.
- Hands-on production experience architecting agentic or LLM-powered systems, including agent loops, context engineering, MCP, tool or function calling, RAG, memory and state management, and guardrails.
- Working knowledge of data modeling, pipeline design, and streaming versus batch processing.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, conduct rigorous design reviews, write technical documents, mentor engineers, and communicate complex decisions clearly.
- Preferred experience with multi-agent orchestration, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Experience leading AI-assisted or agentic development adoption, partnering with Data Science or ML teams, and working in cybersecurity is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and other country-specific benefits.
- The role does not provide immigration sponsorship.
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About SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard builds a SaaS platform that issues cybersecurity ratings and tools for third-party risk and vendor due diligence, used by enterprises, insurers, and public-sector bodies. Customers subscribe to monitor their own posture and that of suppliers, map findings to questionnaires, and support board reporting and underwriting decisions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, it continuously rates over 12 million companies and serves more than 25,000 organizations.