AI Platform Architect & Cross-Team Tech Leader

iHerb Inc.; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

iHerb Inc. seeks a Principal Engineer to guide AI platform architecture and set engineering standards across teams. You will lead hands-on delivery of production AI systems, shape the GenAI product layer, and ensure scalable, guardrailed AI practices.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with product, data science and security, and drive architecture reviews to align multiple teams with iHerb’s AI SDLC golden path.

Qualifications

• AI-driven SDLC tools and guardrails.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems across teams.
• Leadership of platform initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the AI platform architecture across the org.
• Lead development of shared AI platform layer used by AI features.
• Mentor engineers and drive architecture reviews and standards.

Skills

AI-driven SDLC

Architecture at scale

Cross-org leadership

Engineering quality mindset

Communication & influence

Distributed teams (US, China, LATAM)

Production AI platform systems

LLM evaluation

MLOps in production

Agentic systems frameworks (LangChain,

GenAI in production

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

iHerb Inc. seeks a Principal Engineer to guide AI platform architecture and set engineering standards across teams. You will lead hands-on delivery of production AI systems, shape the GenAI product layer, and ensure scalable, guardrailed AI practices.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with product, data science and security, and drive architecture reviews to align multiple teams with iHerb’s AI SDLC golden path.