Principal Architect – AI Product Engineering

🕒 June 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $158.2k - $217.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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3Cloud

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

3Cloud is a leading Azure partner and Microsoft innovator, specializing in generative AI services for enterprise organizations. The company offers expertise in data analytics, AI, DevOps, cloud app development, and cloud infrastructure management, focusing entirely on Microsoft Azure to help businesses transform and optimize their performance. 3Cloud positions itself as a trusted copilot in the AI journey, aiming to enhance business performance through innovative solutions and strategic alignment of AI projects with business objectives. They cater to a range of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail, providing managed services and ongoing support to enable and scale positive impacts of AI.

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional engineering and architecture teams in end-to-end delivery of complex AI systems • Define and enforce reference architectures, technical patterns, delivery standards, and accelerators for enterprise AI adoption, leveraging Azure where appropriate • Provide senior-level architectural oversight for advanced distributed AI-powered applications across multi-system enterprise environments • Drive integration of generative AI, intelligent/agentic systems, and Model Context Protocol into production-ready software • Champion performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and MLOps/LLMOps best practices • Advise CIO, CTO, and CDO stakeholders on enterprise AI strategies and high-value opportunities • Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and visioning sessions • Represent 3Cloud’s technical leadership in client engagements, partner discussions, and industry events • Oversee large-scale AI delivery programs, ensuring architectural integrity, risk mitigation, and alignment with client strategy • Remove delivery blockers and solve architectural challenges • Shape technical direction of sales pursuits, proposals, and multi-year roadmap engagements • Mentor senior architects, tech leads, and engineers • Define and expand internal frameworks, reusable components, delivery IP, and reference architectures • Contribute to thought leadership through whitepapers, conference speaking, open-source contributions, and community involvement • Evangelize AI Product Engineering capabilities across the company and projects

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) • 12+ years in software engineering or application development • 5+ years in architecture leadership roles delivering enterprise-scale systems • Proven experience leading teams in delivering complex, cloud-native, AI-driven applications from concept to production • Extensive experience guiding large-scale modernization or AI adoption programs across multiple business units • Demonstrated ability to build and execute technical strategies aligned with enterprise business goals • Deep expertise in several areas including agentic AI and orchestration, search and retrieval, LLM evaluation and operations, responsible AI, security and compliance, AI platforms and data foundations, cloud engineering, data integration and governance, analytics and visualization • Experience designing intelligent agent workflows using Semantic Kernel or LangChain, with tool/function calling, planning, and orchestration patterns • Experience architecting vector databases, hybrid search, and RAG optimization solutions • Experience building LLM evaluation pipelines, golden datasets, quality gates, telemetry, feedback loops, and guardrails • Experience applying AI governance, safety, risk mitigation, and privacy controls • Hands-on experience with Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Databricks, ML/data pipelines, event-driven architectures, and scalable data systems • Expertise in API-driven, microservices-based, and containerized Azure architectures • Deep familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, and Microsoft development ecosystems including C#, .NET, and Azure Functions • Experience building robust ETL/ELT systems with data quality and metadata governance practices • Ability to integrate analytics and ML outputs into enterprise applications and BI environments • Strong proficiency with modern development workflows, DevOps practices, GitHub, and AI-assisted coding tools • Comfortable working in Agile environments and driving iterative delivery • Ability to align technical architecture with business outcomes and shape long-term strategies • Recognized contributions to the AI ecosystem through articles, talks, OSS, frameworks, or accelerators • Experience building reusable IP adopted across teams or practices • At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work • 401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay • Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days • Two medical plan options • Option for vision and dental coverage • 100% employer paid coverage for life and disability insurance • Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents • Option for Healthcare FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA • $67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance • Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role • Employee Assistance Program