Remote Senior Platform Architect & AI Systems Leader

8th Light, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

L&D program

Learning stipend

Coworking support

Flexible PTO

New parent leave

Job summary

8th Light, Inc. seeks a senior Principal Engineer to lead platform strategy and delivery for client engagements. You will drive production-grade software across languages and frameworks, including AI/agentic capabilities, while shaping scalable architectures and modernizing legacy systems.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with clients and stakeholders, and help define high-level technical roadmaps. This position offers a remote-first environment with hub access in major US metros and

Qualifications

• Experience building production-grade platforms and reusable foundations.

Responsibilities

• Provide platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types.

Skills

Platform engineering

Data engineering

AI/ML systems

DevOps / MLOps

Architecture leadership

Client advisory

Scalability & observability

Modernization & replatforming

Team mentorship

Tools

Databricks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

CrewAI

AutoGen

n8n

Job description

8th Light, Inc. seeks a senior Principal Engineer to lead platform strategy and delivery for client engagements. You will drive production-grade software across languages and frameworks, including AI/agentic capabilities, while shaping scalable architectures and modernizing legacy systems.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with clients and stakeholders, and help define high-level technical roadmaps. This position offers a remote-first environment with hub access in major US metros and