Principal AI Architect — Production-Grade AI for Pharmacy

Wasson Enterprise; United States; On-site; USD 171,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-Life Balance

Comprehensive Benefits

Career Growth

Culture of Ownership

Impactful Work

Collaborative Environment

Job summary

iA is seeking a Principal AI Architect to lead cross-divisional AI architecture and deployment. You will design and ship production-grade AI agents and MCP servers, govern AI adoption, and modernize the platform to unlock measurable business value across pharmacy fulfillment.

You will partner with security/compliance, product, and engineering to ensure HIPAA/PHI safety, FDA software boundaries, and scalable, observable AI solutions. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in architecture leadership across multiple teams or business units.
• Hands-on experience designing and shipping LLM-based or agentic systems to production, including tool/function calling, MCP or equivalent protocols, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and cost/latency management.

Responsibilities

• Define agentic AI reference architecture and shared libraries adopted by divisions.
• Deliver production-grade AI agents and MCP servers with evals, guardrails, and monitoring.
• Drive AI adoption metrics and modernization roadmap across divisions.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture leadership

LLM-based systems

Agentic AI

Cloud & .NET/AWS/Azure

Stakeholder communication

Tools

MCP servers

ADR governance

Evaluation & guardrails tooling

Job description

iA is seeking a Principal AI Architect to lead cross-divisional AI architecture and deployment. You will design and ship production-grade AI agents and MCP servers, govern AI adoption, and modernize the platform to unlock measurable business value across pharmacy fulfillment.

You will partner with security/compliance, product, and engineering to ensure HIPAA/PHI safety, FDA software boundaries, and scalable, observable AI solutions. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.