Remote Lead AI Platform Architect

G-; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous parental leave

Flexible time off

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Sabbatical after 5 years

Job summary

G-P is seeking a hands-on technical leader to raise the engineering bar across teams. You will partner with Engineering Managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, design, CI/CD, and infra while shipping production code for AI and cloud platforms.

You will mentor engineers, lead complex system-design decisions, and build reusable platforms to accelerate delivery. A strong AI, backend, and cloud background is essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in architecture.
• Founding Engineer experienced with scaling startups.
• Ability to influence multiple teams without formal authority.
• Resourceful and independent to own and operate across teams.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
• Deep expertise in AI systems, backend or distributed systems, infrastructure and cloud architecture.
• Practical understanding of modern AI systems, including foundation models, inference, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, latency, and cost.
• Strong working knowledge of full-stack development.
• Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and technical leads on complex system-design decisions.
• Lead technical designs, RFCs, architecture reviews, and critical code reviews.
• Build and ship production systems across AI, backend, cloud, infrastructure, and full-stack applications.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Create reusable platforms, libraries, reference implementations, and paved roads for teams.
• Help design and operate production AI systems, including model integration, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure and help resolve complex production issues.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical quality through hands-on leadership.
• Ensure engineering standards remain effective after they are introduced.

Skills

Architecture leadership

AI systems

Backend systems

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Python

Go

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Influence across teams

Education

Founding Engineer

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

G-P is seeking a hands-on technical leader to raise the engineering bar across teams. You will partner with Engineering Managers and senior engineers to improve architecture, design, CI/CD, and infra while shipping production code for AI and cloud platforms.

You will mentor engineers, lead complex system-design decisions, and build reusable platforms to accelerate delivery. A strong AI, backend, and cloud background is essential for success in this role.