Principal AI Architect
Robots and Pencils8 hours ago
Base Salary
$166k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems.
- Architect scalable multi-cloud and hybrid cloud-native solutions.
- Design data warehouses, data lakes, and batch and streaming pipelines.
- Design production AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and LLM-based applications.
- Define infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards across engagements.
- Optimize performance, scalability, cost, and reliability across deployed systems.
- Ensure architectures meet security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives.
- Partner with clients and senior leadership as the principal technical voice on strategy and direction.
- Document architecture standards and guidelines, mentor experienced engineers and architects, and own complex architectural and integration decisions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in technical leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP, and cloud-native architectures, including multi-cloud experience.
- Strong background in microservices, serverless, containers, and event-driven systems.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
- Strong data architecture experience across relational, NoSQL, and big data systems, including data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration.
- Strong experience designing production AI/ML systems, including LLMs, MLOps, and model serving.
- Understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, access management, governance, compliance, and observability.
- Strong software engineering skills, including Python, APIs, and containerization.
- Track record of senior technical leadership and mentoring experienced engineers.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills and demonstrable use of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor.
- Experience with multi-cloud architecture, responsible AI, enterprise architecture certifications, or SAP EAM integrations through SAP BTP or cloud-native APIs is a plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k) for eligible employees.
- The posting states that compensation may vary based on education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, travel, and business needs.
- Employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check.
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzuredbtDockerGitHub ActionsGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMLflowMongoDBPostgreSQLPythonPyTorchSnowflakeTensorFlowTerraform
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About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.