Senior AI Architect: Agentic Systems & Platform Design

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior architect to own the system design for agentic capabilities, including orchestration, context and state, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns for non-deterministic systems.

You will prototype to validate architectural decisions before teams commit to them at scale and partner with Data Science to integrate agent and model work with platform services, APIs, event streaming, and storage.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership in architecting production systems
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, service boundaries, consistency, event-driven architecture, and API design (REST; gRPC a plus)
• Hands-on experience building and prototyping agentic or LLM-powered systems in production, including memory and state management, tool integration, and guardrail patterns

Responsibilities

• Own the system design for agentic capabilities, including orchestration, context/state, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns for non-deterministic systems
• Prototype to validate architectural decisions before teams commit to them at scale
• Partner with Data Science to integrate agent/model work with platform services, APIs, event streaming, and storage
• Review engineering TDRs and provide substantive feedback on architecture and risk
• Build consensus and alignment across engineering teams
• Drive AI-assisted and agentic development adoption across engineering
• Mentor senior and staff engineers on agentic system design
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs to executives and customers

Skills

Distributed Systems

Architectural Design

Prototyping

Technical Writing

Mentorship

Leadership

Influencing Without Authority

Communication

Consensus Building

Agentic/LLM Systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Kafka

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a senior architect to own the system design for agentic capabilities, including orchestration, context and state, tool boundaries, and reliability patterns for non-deterministic systems.

You will prototype to validate architectural decisions before teams commit to them at scale and partner with Data Science to integrate agent and model work with platform services, APIs, event streaming, and storage.