Principal AI Architect

🕒 October 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165.6k - $228.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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Robots & Pencils

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-04

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm that specializes in developing digital strategies and products utilizing mobile, web, and frontier technologies to drive transformation for businesses. They focus on areas such as mobile development, product design, UX research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and organizational change management. With a commitment to blending creativity with technology, they aim to unlock data insights and enhance product innovation, ultimately delivering excellent customer experiences and helping brands gain a competitive edge.

📋 Description

• Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems for end-to-end engagements • Architect scalable cloud-native solutions, including multi-cloud and hybrid strategies • Design data architectures including warehouses, data lakes, and batch and streaming pipelines • Design AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and LLM-based applications • Define infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards • Drive performance, scalability, cost, and reliability optimization across deployed systems • Ensure architecture meets security, governance, and compliance requirements • Lead cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives • Use AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor to ship higher-quality work at pace • Partner with senior leadership and clients as the principal technical voice on strategy and direction • Communicate complex technical concepts to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders • Align architecture with business priorities alongside engineering, data, AI, and product teams • Develop and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and guidelines • Champion architectural standards and best practices • Mentor experienced engineers and architects • Own difficult architectural and integration challenges as the senior technical decision-maker • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools, frameworks, and patterns

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering • At least 5 years in technical leadership roles • Deep expertise in cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including AWS, Azure, or GCP • Strong background in microservices, serverless, containers, and event-driven systems • Proficiency with infrastructure as code and CI/CD • Strong data architecture expertise across relational, NoSQL, and big data systems • Hands-on experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration • Strong experience designing production AI/ML systems, including LLMs, MLOps, and model serving • Solid understanding of networking, security, identity, and access management in cloud environments • Experience with governance, compliance, and observability frameworks • Strong software engineering skills in Python, APIs, and containerization • Track record of senior technical leadership and mentoring experienced engineers • Strong stakeholder communication skills • Demonstrable usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor • Multi-cloud architecture experience, AI ethics or responsible AI experience, or enterprise architecture certifications is a plus • Experience designing AI/ML solutions integrating with SAP EAM data structures via SAP BTP or cloud-native APIs is a helpful extra

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) for eligible employees