Remote Principal AI/ML Architect - Platform & Agents

Stratus; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

401k matching

20 days PTO

Primarily remote with annual team ons

Remote/on-site team events

Job summary

Stratus is seeking a Principal AI/ML Architect to direct architectural direction for Intelligence and Agentic Workflows within the Stratus Intelligence Platform. This hands-on leadership role focuses on designing solutions, prototyping, and reviewing critical PRs to ensure scalable, trustworthy AI-enabled systems.

You will collaborate with data, engineering, and platform teams to maintain coherence and drive platform evolution, while mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards across

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years in Principal, Staff+, or Architect roles at a B2B SaaS or AI/ML platform company.
• Demonstrated track record of leading AI/ML and agentic architecture across multiple teams or product lines.
• Experience designing systems where AI agents are first-class consumers: MCP servers, agent-facing APIs, retrieval-grounded interfaces.
• Deep proficiency in Python and the modern AI/ML stack (LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch, sklearn, vector stores, embedding pipelines).
• Proficiency in C# / .NET and Azure for integration with Stratus's existing platform.
• Hands-on experience with RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, model training and eval harness design.
• Hands-on experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent) in production.
• Experience driving reliability and operational excellence for AI workloads in collaboration with a platform team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural vision and technical roadmap for Intelligence and Agentic interfaces, workflows.
• Design and evolve agent-based workflows with reasoning-capable, adaptive, multi-step systems and strong trust patterns.
• Develop evaluation frameworks measuring model quality, agent reliability, drift, and platform effectiveness.
• Architect for simplify the core, customize at the edge, and enable marketplace or platform-exchange patterns.
• Lead the polyglot AI stack: vector search, embeddings pipelines, RAG architectures, agent frameworks, model lifecycle, MLOps.
• Set engineering standards through reference implementations, in-repo templates, and patterns AI/ML teams can copy.
• Mentor engineers; raise the technical bar through code review and design reviews.

Skills

Python

C# / .NET

Azure

LangChain

RAG architectures

Code review

Mentoring engineers

Agent frameworks

AI/ML platform

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

PyTorch

Job description

Stratus is seeking a Principal AI/ML Architect to direct architectural direction for Intelligence and Agentic Workflows within the Stratus Intelligence Platform. This hands-on leadership role focuses on designing solutions, prototyping, and reviewing critical PRs to ensure scalable, trustworthy AI-enabled systems.

You will collaborate with data, engineering, and platform teams to maintain coherence and drive platform evolution, while mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards across