Senior AI Architect & Lead — Generative & Agentic

Burtch Works; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Burtch Works seeks a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and delivery of enterprise AI solutions in a hybrid New York setting. You will work with business stakeholders, product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and tech partners to deploy scalable, secure, and responsible AI products.

You will mentor engineers, shape AI engineering standards, and drive value from AI investments while staying current with emerging technologies and enterprise governance.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, AI, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 8+ years delivering ML/AI solutions with technical leadership.
• Expertise in production AI applications spanning ML, Generative AI, and agentic AI architectures.
• Strong software engineering in Python; working knowledge of SQL and JavaScript/TypeScript; experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Deep hands-on with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, and production retrieval architectures.
• Experience deploying AI solutions on Google Cloud Vertex AI and familiarity with AWS AI services and Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of AI and Generative AI solutions across enterprise contexts.
• Design, deploy, and operate production AI applications on the enterprise AI platform.
• Architect multi‑agent AI systems with modern orchestration frameworks.
• Evaluate and integrate AI technologies across the solution stack for scalability and security.
• Establish engineering best practices for AI development, testing, observability, and governance.
• Prototype AI-enabled applications and experiences to validate concepts and drive adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to AI engineers and data scientists.
• Partner with business leaders to define success metrics and optimize AI value.

Skills

Python programming

SQL

JavaScript/TypeScript

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Large language models

RAG

Multi-agent AI

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/Engineering

Tools

LangGraph

Google Cloud Vertex AI

AWS Bedrock

SageMaker

Databricks

Codex/Claude Code

Job description

Burtch Works seeks a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and delivery of enterprise AI solutions in a hybrid New York setting. You will work with business stakeholders, product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and tech partners to deploy scalable, secure, and responsible AI products.

You will mentor engineers, shape AI engineering standards, and drive value from AI investments while staying current with emerging technologies and enterprise governance.