Founding AI Systems Architect (Remote)

Recruiting LM, Inc.

New York (NY)

Remote

USD 90,000 - 108,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Awana is seeking a founding-level engineering lead in New York/remote to architect and ship production AI infrastructure. You will design asset pipelines, AI agents, metadata systems, and delivery APIs, working directly with the CEO.

You will lead 24/7 production AI agents, scale the backend for millions of assets, and optimize cloud costs while partnering with enterprise integrations across major platforms.

Qualifications

  • Experience with AWS Bedrock, Python, Node.js, TypeScript and AI agents.
  • Experience with distributed systems and OpenSearch.
  • Founding-level role with CEO partnership and high ownership.
  • Build production AI systems at large scale (millions of assets, 24/7 agents).

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build large-scale data pipelines for 3M+ assets
  • Design and operate 24/7 production AI agents for metadata generation and enrichment
  • Implement search, retrieval, and recommendation systems
  • Build enterprise delivery APIs and integration infrastructure
  • Create human-in-the-loop review and QA automation workflows
  • Optimize AWS costs and scale cloud infrastructure

Skills

AWS Bedrock
Python
Node.js
TypeScript
AI agents
Distributed systems
OpenSearch

Job description

Awana is seeking a founding-level engineering lead in New York/remote to architect and ship production AI infrastructure. You will design asset pipelines, AI agents, metadata systems, and delivery APIs, working directly with the CEO.

You will lead 24/7 production AI agents, scale the backend for millions of assets, and optimize cloud costs while partnering with enterprise integrations across major platforms.

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