AI Architect

Robotics Technologies LLC; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics Technologies LLC seeks an Associate Principal, AI Optimization & Delivery to architect scalable AI-enabled workflows and define the platform component layer. You will balance exploratory research with production-grade design, guiding pods and pilots toward secure, compliant deployments.

The role demands deep experience in enterprise AI platforms, multi-agent orchestration, and governance, with a focus on HIPAA/PHI/PII considerations and cost-aware, high-performance patterns.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise software architecture, platform architecture, or AI/ML systems.
• Hands-on experience delivering LLM orchestration and agentic systems in production (multi-agent orchestration, context management, tool connectivity).
• Ability to evaluate emerging frameworks and translate requirements into secure, scalable platform capabilities.
• Experience designing AI/ML platform infrastructure including deployment pipelines, observability, and runtime monitoring.
• Experience working in regulated data environments with privacy and compliance controls.

Responsibilities

• Establish architectural standards for LLM-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems.
• Define hybrid patterns balancing LLM judgment with deterministic code for compliance.
• Architect platform component layer including reusable templates and RAG pipelines.
• Define data models for enterprise agent registries and context-management strategies.
• Lead evaluations of AI technologies and document architectural rationale.
• Ensure HIPAA, PHI, and PII boundaries are respected in designs.

Skills

Systems thinking

Architectural decisions

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulated data experience

Tools

LLMOps tooling

MLOps pipelines

Observability tooling

Job description

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Work Authorization:

US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

The Associate Principal, AI Optimization & Delivery - Solution Architecture serves as the technical cornerstone of Client's AI Optimization & Delivery organization. As a principal individual contributor with a greenfield mandate, this role serves as the primary technical design authority for AI Optimization & Delivery. The position partners with AI Optimization & Delivery leadership, Enterprise Architecture, and delivery pods to ensure Client's AI ecosystem integrates cohesively with the enterprise and supports adoption across distributed engineering teams. The immediate focus is to bring architectural clarity to existing pilot initiatives by designing blueprints for an agentic component layer, establishing technical exit criteria for the sandbox-to-production graduation process, and laying the foundation for a managed AI Internal Developer Platform (IDP). Over time, this role will architect an ecosystem that enables Client's engineering teams to deliver AI-powered solutions at scale, accelerate delivery velocity, and prevent architectural debt. This role combines hands-on technical design with systems-level thinking. The ideal candidate can objectively evaluate emerging frameworks, serve as a technical design authority for delivery pods, and translate regulatory and business requirements into secure, scalable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities:

Technical Architecture and Standards

• Establish architectural standards and design patterns for LLM-enabled workflows, agentic systems, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Define hybrid system patterns that balance LLM-based judgment with deterministic code for high-confidence and compliance-sensitive operations.
• Architect the initial design and governing standards for the platform component layer, including shared libraries, reusable agent templates, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, vector databases, and hybrid search patterns.
• Establish contribution models and reusable patterns that engineering squads can adopt, extend, and maintain.
• Define the AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) approach, including model provenance tracking, third-party model risk assessment, and version governance.
• Establish observability standards that support telemetry, reasoning traceability, operational monitoring, and auditability.
• Design routing architectures that optimize latency and cost, including semantic caching, model fallback strategies, and intelligent workload distribution between small language models (SLMs) and frontier large language models (LLMs).

Platform Architecture and Governance

• Define technical exit criteria and architectural standards for a governed sandbox-to-production graduation process.
• Partner with AI Operations (AIOps) and pilot teams to transition successful initiatives into governed platform environments.
• Architect and maintain data models for enterprise agent registries and context-management strategies, including memory architecture and resource-connectivity patterns.
• Lead technical evaluations of AI technologies, platforms, and protocols, documenting architectural rationale and supporting vendor-agnostic decision-making.
• Architect data privacy and security boundaries tailored to healthcare data, including protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII).
• Ensure RAG, memory, and context-management systems are designed to comply with HIPAA requirements and clinical data-sharing agreements.

Platform Evolution and Maturity

• Define year-one technical milestones for Client's AI maturity model.
• Maintain awareness of emerging AI frameworks, tools, and architectural patterns, translating relevant developments into prioritized platform-evolution recommendations.
• Establish evaluation methodologies and validation frameworks, including LLM-as-judge calibration, prompt-testing criteria, regression testing, and other evaluation practices for probabilistic systems.
• Integrate evaluation and validation capabilities into engineering and deployment pipelines.
• Partner with active pilot teams to identify reusable architectural patterns and continuously strengthen the platform component layer.
• Design rate-limiting, token-throttling, and cross-charge model cost-allocation architectures.
• Deliver instrumentation that enables per-workflow cost visibility, governance, and FinOps reporting.

Leadership and Delivery Enablement

• Serve as the technical design authority for delivery pods and own solution blueprints that align with AI-DLC gates.
• Eliminate architectural ambiguity early in the delivery lifecycle to accelerate execution and prevent technical debt.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to integrate the AI stack into Client's broader enterprise architecture blueprint.
• Represent and maintain Client's AI architecture position while coordinating with Enterprise Architecture as an integration partner.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to design deployment automation and embed governance through policy-as-code frameworks and other programmatic controls.
• Partner with Security, Clinical, Data, and Product teams to translate regulatory, operational, and domain requirements into native platform capabilities.
• Present architecture positions, technical evaluations, and recommendations to AI Optimization & Delivery leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Own and maintain a library of reference architectures, technical standards, and decision trees that enable distributed engineering teams to build confidently without requiring architectural review for every engagement.

Qualifications:

• 10+ or more years of experience in enterprise software architecture, platform architecture, AI/ML systems, data architecture, or enterprise platform delivery, including experience operating at enterprise scale.
• At least 5+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience delivering LLM orchestration and agentic systems in production, including multi-agent orchestration, context management, and tool connectivity.
• Strong systems-thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate emergent behavior, failure modes, and downstream architectural consequences before solutions are implemented.
• Demonstrated ability to make, communicate, and defend principled architectural decisions.
• Experience designing AI/ML platform infrastructure, including cloud AI platform integration, LLMOps/MLOps tooling, deployment pipelines, observability, and runtime monitoring.
• Experience with LLM evaluation practices, including LLM-as-judge calibration, regression pipelines, prompt testing, and validation of probabilistic systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create architecture decision records, technical standards, reference architectures, and other technical documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across Engineering, Security, Compliance, Data, Product, and business functions.
• Experience working in regulated data environments, including data governance, audit readiness, privacy boundaries, and compliance controls.

Preferred Experience

• Deep familiarity with healthcare data environments, including HIPAA, PHI handling, and clinical data-sharing constraints.
• Experience building or governing enterprise AI/ML platforms, including agent registries, model-provenance tracking, AIBOM concepts, and AI governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience building reusable platform components, such as shared libraries, templates, run patterns, reference architectures, or developer-enablement assets.
• Experience creating platforms and tools that accelerate downstream engineering teams while minimizing unnecessary dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to earn adoption through product quality, technical credibility, and peer influence, particularly in horizontal platform roles where influence precedes formal authority.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.