Remote Contract Architect - AI, AWS & Consumer Platforms

MarcoPolo Learning, Inc.; United States; A distancia; USD 165.000 - 262.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

MarcoPolo Learning, Inc. is seeking a Contract Systems Architect to guide AI, AWS, and consumer platform architecture. You will translate product goals into secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems, with hands-on coding and production readiness.

You will work with founders and engineers across architecture reviews, AI model integration, and deployment pipelines, delivering prototypes, controlled experiments, and thorough handoff documentation for independent team operation.

Formación

• Experience as Systems Architect or senior technical leader building production software.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience and ability to explain tradeoffs.
• Production experience shipping consumer applications with scalable infra costs.
• Experience integrating LLMs and building AI workflows beyond proofs of concept.
• Knowledge of leading models and evaluating releases.
• Strong backend skills in Python or TS/Node.js.

Responsabilidades

• Assess product requirements, architecture, and priorities.
• Design AWS architectures for consumer apps: APIs, compute, storage, DBs, caching, queues, async processing.
• Evaluate AI models and providers for quality, latency, reliability, privacy, cost.
• Design AI capabilities like retrieval-augmented generation and agent orchestration.
• Establish production controls for AI workflows with evaluations, tracing, retries, fallbacks, human approvals.
• Address consumer platform needs: auth, data protection, traffic spikes, abuse prevention, user experience.
• Define infrastructure as code, pipelines, environment separation, monitoring, backup, recovery.
• Collaborate with engineers, review code/infrastructure changes, validate via prototypes/load testing.
• Document decisions and enable handoff for operations.

Conocimientos

AWS expertise

Production systems

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Relational databases

Caching

Messaging

Containers

Serverless

Infrastructure as code

AI security

LLMs integration

Model evaluation

Descripción del empleo

MarcoPolo Learning, Inc. is seeking a Contract Systems Architect to guide AI, AWS, and consumer platform architecture. You will translate product goals into secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems, with hands-on coding and production readiness.

You will work with founders and engineers across architecture reviews, AI model integration, and deployment pipelines, delivering prototypes, controlled experiments, and thorough handoff documentation for independent team operation.