KL Software Technologies(“KLST”) iis hiring a hands-on AI Architect to lead our transformation into an agentic-AI-first product engineering organization. You will design, deploy, and operate multiple fleets of autonomous AI agents, powered by Anthropic Claude (Claude Code) and/or OpenAI Codex, that build, test, and ship software features, run product management workflows, and execute digital marketing campaigns across our flagship KLST products (learn more here www.klstinc.com/whyklstforlegal ).
This is NOT a chatbot or data-science role. You will industrialize software delivery using agentic AI developer tools – Claude Code, AI code review and optimization tools (e.g., ponytail), multi-agent product build orchestrators (e.g., gstack, which spins up CEO / PM / BA / QA / Dev agents that work together to deliver a complete product), and free / lower-cost open-source options such as NVIDIA’s agentic AI toolkits (NeMo Agent Toolkit and NIM microservices).
The Mission
Stand up and operate AT LEAST FIFTY (50) 24/7 autonomous coding and QA agents delivering product features across KLST products by the end of the year – organized so that each Senior Engineer owns and manages 5–10 agents, reviews every agent’s output, and validates results BEFORE any code is allowed to be committed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, deploy, and scale a multi-agent software delivery platform using Claude Code, agentic code review/optimization tools (ponytail or similar), product build orchestrators (gstack or similar), and NVIDIA’s open-source agentic toolkits – selecting the right mix of commercial and free/open-source tooling to control cost.
- Design end-to-end agent workflows covering the full SDLC – requirements, design, coding, code review, QA automation, and release – with human-in-the-loop approval gates at every commit.
- Build coding agents that autonomously pull work items/tickets from Azure DevOps Boards, generate implementation code with Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex to meet each ticket’s requirements, self-QA the code against positive and negative test cases, and check the validated code into the repository.
- Build product management agents that autonomously groom the backlog, draft and refine requirements and user stories, prioritize work, and generate release notes and status reporting.
- Build digital marketing agents that autonomously plan, generate, and optimize marketing content and campaigns – SEO, email, social, and web – tied to product launches and releases.
- Define and enforce the agent governance model: mandatory Senior Engineer review and validation of agent output before commits, branch protection, audit trails, rollback, and security / IP safeguards for AI-generated code.
- Enable and coach Senior Engineers to become “agent managers”, each owning and supervising 5–10 agents; build the playbooks, prompt libraries, guardrails, and evaluation metrics they use to review and validate agent output.
- Integrate the agent fleet with our Git / CI-CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub) so agents work 24/7 within guardrails across netDocShare, imDocShare, and KLapper repositories.
- Continuously measure and report agent fleet productivity, code quality, defect escape rates, and cost per feature; optimize model/toolkit selection (Claude vs. open source / NVIDIA) for cost and performance.
- Stay current with the agentic AI ecosystem (Model Context Protocol, multi-agent orchestration, agent evaluation frameworks) and continuously upgrade KLST’s Agentic Delivery Platform.
Key Qualifications:
Required Skills
- Very strong, demonstrable background setting up and operating MULTIPLE autonomous AI agents in production – designing agent architectures, orchestrating agent-to-agent collaboration, and running fleets of agents 24/7 with reliability and guardrails.
- Overall, at least TEN (10) years “hands-on” software engineering experience with a strong full-stack background (.NET / TypeScript / React or Angular / REST APIs / SQL) on Azure or AWS.
- Minimum TWO (2) years of hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic AI developer tools – Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex (or GitHub Copilot / Cursor / Windsurf), prompt engineering, and LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or open-weight models).
- Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks and toolkits – e.g., gstack, ponytail, NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI – including agent-to-agent workflows (PM / BA / Dev / QA agent roles).
- Hands-on experience building autonomous coding agents that ingest tickets / work items from Azure DevOps, generate code with Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex to meet the requirements, validate it against positive and negative test cases, and commit the code – end-to-end with minimal human intervention.
- Experience building autonomous agents beyond software delivery – product management agents (backlog grooming, requirements / user-story generation, prioritization, reporting) and digital marketing agents (content generation, campaign planning, SEO / email / social execution).
- Strong experience with automated code review and QA automation – unit / integration / end-to-end testing (Playwright, Selenium, or similar) and using AI agents to author and execute test suites – including both positive and negative test cases – before code is committed.
- Strong DevOps skills: Git branching and PR workflows, CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), containerization, and secrets/access management for autonomous agents.
- Proven ability to define engineering governance for AI-generated code: review gates, quality metrics, traceability, and compliance controls.
- Strong presentation and communication skills (both written and verbal) are required; able to train and influence senior engineers to adopt the agent-manager operating model.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, RAG pipelines, and agent evaluation / benchmarking frameworks.
- Experience building product management agents with tools such as Azure DevOps Boards, Jira, or Aha! automating backlog grooming, roadmap updates, and stakeholder reporting.
- Experience building digital marketing agents across SEO, content / CMS, email automation, and social platforms – connecting marketing workflows to product launches and releases.
- Knowledge of the Microsoft 365 / SharePoint ecosystem and legal document management platforms (iManage, NetDocuments), the domain of netDocShare and imDocShare.
- Experience optimizing LLM spend, prompt caching, model routing, and running open-weight models on NVIDIA GPUs as a lower-cost alternative to commercial APIs.
- Microsoft Azure, AWS, or NVIDIA certifications.
- Willing to travel nationally or internationally on temporary and permanent assignments (United States, Australia, India).