Robotsandpencils
Principal AI Engineering Architect
US Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
The Principal AI Engineering Architect leads the design and delivery of complex multi-domain systems spanning cloud, data, and AI. This role involves defining technical strategy, architecting production-grade multi-agent agentic AI systems, and mentoring engineers.
What you will do
- Define technical strategy and lead architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems
- Architect and ship production-grade multi-agent agentic AI systems
- Design and build with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and AWS GenAI services
- Architect scalable cloud-native solutions with a bias toward AWS
- Design data architectures including warehouses, data lakes, and pipelines
- Design AI/ML systems including model serving, MLOps pipelines, and LLM-based applications
- Build and evolve scalable ML platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure
- Define infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps standards
- Drive performance, scalability, cost, and reliability optimization
- Ensure architecture meets security, governance, and compliance requirements
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- At least 5 years in technical leadership roles
- 4+ years focused on AI/ML systems in production
- Expert software engineering background in Python or similar
- Deep, hands-on expertise designing and shipping production multi-agent agentic AI systems
- Deep expertise with AWS and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- 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
- Mastery of AI frameworks and orchestration tools for building agentic systems
- Strong experience designing AI/ML systems for production
Nice to have
- Broader multi-cloud experience (Azure, GCP)
- Multi-cloud architecture experience
- AI ethics or responsible AI experience
- Enterprise architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP)
About the company
Robots & Pencils designs AI systems for a human world by pairing engineering with creativity. They ship production-ready AI in 30 to 45 days.