Principal AI & ML Architect - Agentic Systems Lead

National Debt Relief, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits

401(k) with Company Match

Paid Holidays & Vacation

Job summary

National Debt Relief seeks a Principal AI & ML Architect to design and implement scalable AI systems powering Data Science and Applied AI teams. This senior IC will shape shared architectural standards while remaining hands-on, delivering production-grade ML and Generative AI solutions.

You will partner with Data Science, Applied AI, Data Engineering, and Analytics Platforms to scale secure platforms. The role emphasizes agentic architectures, governance, and cost controls in a regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 8+ years in ML engineering, data science, AI engineering, or software architecture roles.
• 3+ years in senior/architect roles setting technical direction.
• Proven track record deploying production-grade ML models and Generative AI apps at scale.
• Hands-on experience designing and shipping agentic AI systems to production.

Responsibilities

• Design NDR’s agentic architecture, including orchestration patterns, tool and API integration standards, memory and retrieval layers.
• Collaborate on reference architectures and reusable components across teams.
• Hands-on coding, prototype development, and delivering production-ready solutions.
• Design end-to-end ML systems from feature pipelines to deployment and monitoring.
• Determine where agents/LLMs call predictive ML models and vice versa.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLMs & RAG

Agent frameworks

MLOps/LLMOps

APIs & deployment

Cloud platforms

Git & CI/CD

Communication

Agentic architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/related

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

FastAPI

Docker

AWS/Azure/GCP

Snowflake

LangGraph/OpenAI Agents SDK/Claude Agent SDK

Job description

National Debt Relief seeks a Principal AI & ML Architect to design and implement scalable AI systems powering Data Science and Applied AI teams. This senior IC will shape shared architectural standards while remaining hands-on, delivering production-grade ML and Generative AI solutions.

You will partner with Data Science, Applied AI, Data Engineering, and Analytics Platforms to scale secure platforms. The role emphasizes agentic architectures, governance, and cost controls in a regulated