Principal AI Software Architect - Secure, Production-Ready

Metrosion Inc.; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Metrosion Inc. in Burlingame, California seeks a senior engineering leader to direct architecture and delivery of secure, reliable AI software.

The role combines hands-on ownership from architecture to production operation, partnering with product, design, and data teams to build AI software for regulated industries and critical operations. Staff- or Principal-level leadership, with responsibilities spanning design reviews, testing, security, and mentorship.

Qualifications

• Six+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of complex production systems.
• Staff- or Principal-level technical leadership: architecture ownership, cross-team influence, mentoring, and delivery of significant engineering outcomes.
• Strong hands-on programming skills in a modern language such as TypeScript, Python, or Go, with production software delivery experience.
• Deep understanding of APIs, relational data, authentication, authorization, distributed systems, and secure handling of sensitive information.
• Hands-on experience delivering AI or ML capabilities including model integration, evaluation, and production monitoring.
• Strong engineering judgment in design reviews, automated testing, CI, and cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions across AI applications, data flows, integrations, and infrastructure; document tradeoffs and guide implementation.
• Develop maintainable services, APIs, and interfaces for AI-assisted workflows with explicit authorization and tenant boundaries.
• Integrate models, retrieval, and tool calls with validated inputs, bounded permissions, retries, and recoverable workflow state.
• Build meaningful automated tests and workflow evaluations; investigate failures using traces and operational evidence.
• Use AI coding tools effectively while reviewing generated changes for correctness, security, and fit with the codebase.
• Own performance, observability, incident investigation, and documentation for the capabilities you ship.
• Mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, and establish practical standards for security, reliability, evaluation, and maintainability.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related field

Job description

Metrosion Inc. in Burlingame, California seeks a senior engineering leader to direct architecture and delivery of secure, reliable AI software.

The role combines hands-on ownership from architecture to production operation, partnering with product, design, and data teams to build AI software for regulated industries and critical operations. Staff- or Principal-level leadership, with responsibilities spanning design reviews, testing, security, and mentorship.