Agentic AI Architect I - Platform & Patterns

Apt; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apt is seeking an Agentic AI Architect I to design scalable, reliable, and reusable architectures for production-grade AI agents. You will collaborate across product, engineering, AI Platform, infrastructure, QA/Eval, operations, and support teams to translate requirements into practical agent architectures.

This hands-on role balances technical design with implementation practicality, guiding teams toward reusable patterns and ensuring production-readiness across agent products.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or building backend systems, distributed applications, workflow platforms, integration services, developer platforms, cloud applications, or AI-enabled solutions.
• Working knowledge of APIs, asynchronous processing, service coordination, event-driven architectures, stateful systems, and enterprise integrations.
• Understanding of architecture principles related to scalability, reliability, performance, availability, maintainability, security, and production support.
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications, AI agents, retrieval techniques, prompt and context management, tool calling, workflow automation, or model-driven products.
• Ability to convert business and workflow requirements into practical technical architectures.
• Experience with cloud services, deployment pipelines, monitoring, logging, dashboards, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of testing, evaluation, regression coverage, release readiness, and operational support for production systems.
• Ability to evaluate technical alternatives and explain architecture tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear diagrams, design documents, decision records, and implementation guidance.
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, QA/Eval, security, infrastructure, operations, and support teams.
• Ability to work effectively in an evolving technical environment where requirements and agentic AI patterns may continue to mature.

Job description

Apt is seeking an Agentic AI Architect I to design scalable, reliable, and reusable architectures for production-grade AI agents. You will collaborate across product, engineering, AI Platform, infrastructure, QA/Eval, operations, and support teams to translate requirements into practical agent architectures.

This hands-on role balances technical design with implementation practicality, guiding teams toward reusable patterns and ensuring production-readiness across agent products.