Principal AI Applications Architect — Remote

Granicus; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Granicus is seeking a Principal AI Engineer, Applications to lead development of secure, scalable AI-driven applications and workflows. You will own architecture and hands-on delivery of user-facing AI apps, including guided workflows, services, and integrations across enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with platform and operations teams to translate business processes into measurable, productive software.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production applications.
• Experience architecting and building full-stack applications, backend services, and APIs.
• Experience integrating applications with enterprise systems of record.
• Experience implementing enterprise identity and authorization.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and operate engineering work end-to-end as a senior individual contributor.
• Hands-on familiarity with LLMs, agents, or retrieval systems through production work, prototypes, or internal tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, deploy, and operate full-stack internal AI applications that incorporate agents, trusted business data, workflow automation, and human decision-making.
• Convert AI prototypes and agent capabilities into durable, repeatable workflows across business teams.
• Integrate applications with Granicus' lakehouse, canonical metric layer, trusted data services, reusable agents, and evaluation systems.
• Own the implementation of application-level authentication and authorization.
• Own application and workflow integrations with enterprise systems and systems of record.
• Instrument applications to measure adoption, engagement, workflow completion, cycle time, and other operational indicators.

Skills

Software engineering

Full-stack development

LLMs / agents

Identity & authorization

Enterprise systems

Technical direction

Production-grade systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Granicus is seeking a Principal AI Engineer, Applications to lead development of secure, scalable AI-driven applications and workflows. You will own architecture and hands-on delivery of user-facing AI apps, including guided workflows, services, and integrations across enterprise systems.

You will collaborate with platform and operations teams to translate business processes into measurable, productive software.