Principal AI Platform Architect

Vouch Insurance; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity/stock options

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Parental leave

Flexible vacation time

Wellness allowance

Technology allowance

Development opportunities with Ethena/

Lunch & Learns

Job summary

Vouch is seeking a Principal Engineer to own and scale an agent-native platform that governs AI-driven insurance work. You will unify bounded contexts across the backend, implement strict architectural boundaries, and lead cross-functional teams in a high-growth startup environment.

You will drive durable, production-grade agent systems, tool contracts, and evaluation frameworks, collaborating closely with the CTO to shape the architecture and roadmap.

Qualifications

• Shipped domain-driven design with bounded contexts.
• Experience across AI, DevOps, and software architecture.
• Familiar with production-grade TypeScript, Python, or Rust.
• Experience in early-stage startups or high-growth environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform that governs agent-built software.
• Make bounded contexts real across the backend architecture.
• Ship agentic systems with multi-week workflows and governance gates.
• Make model behavior measurable with eval suites and traceability.
• Run platform and delivery engineering at multi-account cloud scale (Terraform, GitOps).
• Be the CTO's architecture thought partner and raise the bar.

Skills

AI engineering

DevOps

Software architecture

DDD

Tools

Rust

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Vouch is seeking a Principal Engineer to own and scale an agent-native platform that governs AI-driven insurance work. You will unify bounded contexts across the backend, implement strict architectural boundaries, and lead cross-functional teams in a high-growth startup environment.

You will drive durable, production-grade agent systems, tool contracts, and evaluation frameworks, collaborating closely with the CTO to shape the architecture and roadmap.