Lead AI Architect for Agentic, Scalable Systems

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

SecurityScorecard is seeking a high-impact architect to lead system design for agentic AI capabilities in a production environment. You will define orchestration, context/state handling, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns to enable scalable, non-deterministic systems.

You will prototype decisions, collaborate with Data Science, review TDRs, and mentor senior engineers while communicating trade-offs to executives and customers. This role is based in Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, with senior/lead architecture experience.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, REST, and scalable operation.
• Hands-on with agentic/LLM-powered systems: context, memory, tool integration.
• Data engineering basics: modeling, pipelines, streaming vs batch.
• Influence and buy-in across teams; strong technical writing.
• Clear communication of architectural trade-offs to executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead system design for agentic AI capabilities.
• Design orchestration, context/state, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns.
• Write TDRs, design docs, and standards establishing direction.
• Prototype architectural decisions before teams scale.
• Partner with Data Science to integrate AI with APIs, events, and storage.
• Review engineering TDRs and provide architecture feedback.
• Build consensus across engineering teams.
• Drive AI-assisted development adoption across teams.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers on agentic design.
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs to executives and customers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architectural design

Technical writing

Mentorship

Influencing without authority

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

SecurityScorecard is seeking a high-impact architect to lead system design for agentic AI capabilities in a production environment. You will define orchestration, context/state handling, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns to enable scalable, non-deterministic systems.

You will prototype decisions, collaborate with Data Science, review TDRs, and mentor senior engineers while communicating trade-offs to executives and customers. This role is based in Austin, TX.