Senior AI Architect: End-to-End Production ML Systems

Robots & Pencils; Bogotá; On-site; COP 90,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils seeks an AI Engineer/Architect to design, build, and scale production-grade AI systems delivering measurable business value. This hands-on technical leadership role requires owning complex AI systems end-to-end, guiding teams through model iteration to secure production deployment.

You will lead architecture, design ML pipelines, and set up observability, CI/CD, and cost-aware infrastructure while mentoring engineers and aligning initiatives with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or applied machine learning.
• Proven experience designing and deploying production AI systems.
• Strong software engineering background (Python or similar).
• Experience with distributed systems and scalable data architectures.
• Deep understanding of MLOps, model lifecycle management, and AI infrastructure.
• Experience building and maintaining ML pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and architectural judgment.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define AI system architecture aligned to business objectives and long-term scalability.
• Translate ambiguous AI opportunities into structured technical approaches.
• Design modular, extensible AI platforms supporting experimentation and production workloads.
• Establish architecture decision records and technical documentation standards.
• Lead design and implementation of ML systems, model services, and inference pipelines.
• Build scalable training, evaluation, and deployment workflows.
• Architect data ingestion, feature engineering, and model serving strategies.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and performance optimization of AI systems.
• Design end-to-end AI pipelines and agentic orchestration frameworks.
• Establish LLMOps best practices including CI/CD, prompt versioning, and real-time model observability.
• Optimize distributed inference systems and RAG performance.
• Ensure AI infrastructure aligns with security, compliance, and GPU/token cost-efficiency standards.
• Bridge research and engineering by operationalizing prototypes into production-ready systems.
• Define evaluation metrics, validation processes, and rollout strategies.
• Improve iteration velocity through tooling and automation.
• Mentor junior and mid-level AI engineers.
• Lead code reviews and enforce engineering standards.
• Guide teams in making informed tradeoffs across performance, scalability, cost, and complexity.
• Contribute to shared AI best practices and accelerators.
• Partner with product, engineering, and executives to shape AI roadmaps.
• Communicate technical strategy and system tradeoffs clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Align AI initiatives with business value and measurable outcomes.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Production AI systems

Python

Distributed systems

MLOps

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Robots & Pencils seeks an AI Engineer/Architect to design, build, and scale production-grade AI systems delivering measurable business value. This hands-on technical leadership role requires owning complex AI systems end-to-end, guiding teams through model iteration to secure production deployment.

You will lead architecture, design ML pipelines, and set up observability, CI/CD, and cost-aware infrastructure while mentoring engineers and aligning initiatives with business outcomes.