Deployed Architect, Professional Services Austin - langchain

OpenTalent; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Austin, Texas seeks a Deployed Architect to design, deploy, and optimize production-grade AI infrastructure and agent systems for enterprise customers. You will lead both software development and platform engineering, shaping best practices across Kubernetes, IaC, and multi-agent architectures.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, secure and scalable deployments, and rigorous evaluation of agent applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on customer-facing technical experience (Solutions Architect or Forward Deployed Engineer)
• Experience designing scalable, secure AI infrastructure for production deployments
• Ability to balance infrastructure architecture with agent development work

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, highly-available AI infrastructure and platform deployments
• Develop multi-agent systems and evaluation frameworks; optimize prompts with A/B testing
• Lead technical maturity assessments and guide deployments with customers

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

LangChain

LangGraph

Multi-agent systems

Customer engagement

Solutions architecture

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for a Deployed Architect to join our Professional Services team. You'll work directly with enterprise customers to design, deploy, and optimize production-grade AI infrastructure and agent systems. You'll be responsible for architecting scalable, secure infrastructure deployments and building reliable, well-evaluated agent applications that solve real business problems.

This role combines software development, infrastructure/platform engineering, and customer-facing skills. You'll work on everything from Kubernetes cluster design to multi-agent system architecture, requiring deep technical expertise across both infrastructure and agent engineering domains.

This role offers direct impact on customer success,

the opportunity

to shape best practices, and work with cutting-edge AI technology. You'll join a collaborative team environment with a strong engineering culture.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: Design scalable, highly-available infrastructure for AI platform deployments (compute, storage, networking, security), enterprise integration patterns, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm), multi-region HA/DR strategies, and CI/CD pipelines
• Agent Engineering & Development: Design multi-agent systems using different patterns, implement agent logic using modern frameworks (langchain/langgraph), design comprehensive evaluation frameworks, optimize prompts with A/B testing, and guide deployment/operations
• Customer Engagement & Assessment: Lead technical maturity assessments, work directly with enterprise customers to understand

requirements

and present recommendations, and partner with Engagement Managers and Product/Engineering teams

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

7+ years of experience in a technical, hands-on customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect or Forward Deployed Engineer. We also like former founders, so if you have an unusual background, but all the right skillsets, you are welcome

requirements

and design elegant solutions

• Excellent customer-facing communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering teams, product teams, and customers
• Consultative approach with ability to understand customer needs, provide recommendations, and guide implementation
• Ability to balance infrastructure architecture with agent development work
• Strong engineering background with hands-on development experience

Location: Austin, Texas

Compensation

$170,000-$215,000 base salary + equity

Compensation

Philosophy:

We offer competitive

compensation