Enterprise AI Framework Architect

Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC is seeking a Principal AI Framework Architect to drive the architecture and evolution of a reusable enterprise AI framework. You will move between system design, prototyping, and production problem-solving to establish foundational patterns for AI agents, models, and tools across the organization.

The role requires hands-on engineering, design reviews, and leadership without people management.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing enterprise-scale software frameworks and distributed systems.
• Hands-on software engineering with Python, Java, or Go at scale.
• Experience with enterprise AI, GenAI, agentic systems, LLM integration and tool calling.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, containers/Kubernetes, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Define and own architecture, patterns, interfaces, and evolution of the enterprise AI framework.
• Build reference implementations, prototype high-risk approaches, and write production-grade code.
• Design reusable patterns for agent execution, durable workflows, and governance.
• Create developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and documentation to accelerate adoption.
• Lead architectural reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate complex designs.

Skills

Enterprise software frameworks

Distributed systems

Python

Java

Go

GenAI & LLM integration

Agentic systems

Tool calling

Cloud-native platforms

Microservices & Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenAI Agents SDK

LangGraph / LangChain

AWS/Azure/GCP AI services

Job description

Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC is seeking a Principal AI Framework Architect to drive the architecture and evolution of a reusable enterprise AI framework. You will move between system design, prototyping, and production problem-solving to establish foundational patterns for AI agents, models, and tools across the organization.

The role requires hands-on engineering, design reviews, and leadership without people management.