Remote AI Architect & Platform Leader

Emergent Software; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Emergent Software is seeking an experienced AI Architect to lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery of customer-facing AI capabilities across its SaaS platform portfolio. This is a hands-on leadership role combining AI strategy, software architecture, and team leadership.

The ideal candidate has designed and delivered production AI solutions, led technical direction for AI initiatives, and will guide a growing AI team on next-generation capabilities including agentic systems and personalization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering with architecture leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and technical direction for AI capabilities across the product portfolio.
• Design and build scalable AI solutions, including agentic workflows, personalization, RAG, knowledge representation, and AI‑driven customer experiences.
• Establish reusable patterns and standards for prompts, memory, context management, evaluation, and AI orchestration.
• Develop prototypes and reference implementations, remaining actively involved in software development.
• Integrate AI capabilities across .NET, Node.js, Go, and Java platforms.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and infrastructure, including build‑versus‑buy decisions.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and product teams to move AI capabilities from concept through production.
• Provide architectural guidance, design reviews, and hands‑on support to engineering teams adopting AI.
• Explore new AI use cases and emerging capabilities, including agent harnesses, personalized content generation, and MCP.
• Identify practical AI opportunities that create measurable customer and business value.
• Contribute to technical due diligence and AI capability assessments for potential acquisitions.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture leadership

AI architecture

LLM applications

RAG

Agentic systems

Graph databases

Knowledge graphs

Memory management

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Security & governance

Tools

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS Bedrock

LangSmith

LangFuse

Graph databases

Job description

Emergent Software is seeking an experienced AI Architect to lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery of customer-facing AI capabilities across its SaaS platform portfolio. This is a hands-on leadership role combining AI strategy, software architecture, and team leadership.

The ideal candidate has designed and delivered production AI solutions, led technical direction for AI initiatives, and will guide a growing AI team on next-generation capabilities including agentic systems and personalization.