Senior AI Framework Architect for Enterprise Platform

Ashley Furniture Industries; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashley Furniture Industries seeks a Principal AI Framework Architect to lead the architecture and evolution of the enterprise AI framework. This hands-on senior IC role sets patterns, APIs, and reference implementations enabling teams to build and operate AI solutions at scale.

Responsibilities include solving complex distributed-system challenges, driving technology decisions, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with security, data, and platform teams to ensure governance and

Qualifications

• Significant multiple years’ experience designing and building enterprise-scale software frameworks, distributed systems, developer platforms, or comparable shared technical capabilities.
• Strong hands-on software engineering skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar languages, with the ability to move from architecture to implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise AI, GenAI, agentic systems, LLM integration, tool calling, and AI application architecture.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native systems, APIs, microservices, containers/Kubernetes, asynchronous processing, distributed state, security, identity, and observability.
• Ability to evaluate emerging AI technologies and translate them into durable enterprise engineering patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architecture, technical patterns, interfaces, and evolution of the enterprise AI framework across runtime, orchestration, governance, security, identity, integration, state, and observability.
• Make pragmatic build-versus-buy and technology decisions and establish clear boundaries with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, security, data, and platform services.
• Design for scalability, resiliency, extensibility, and portability as models, agent frameworks, protocols, and enterprise requirements evolve.
• Build reference implementations and critical framework components; prototype high-risk approaches and validate architecture through working software.
• Write and review production-quality code, establish reusable libraries/APIs/patterns, and work directly with engineers to solve the hardest technical problems.
• Diagnose complex distributed-system, integration, performance, reliability, and security issues.

Skills

Enterprise-scale frameworks

Distributed systems

Python/Java/Go

GenAI & LLM integration

Cloud-native & Kubernetes

Architectural patterns

Job description

Ashley Furniture Industries seeks a Principal AI Framework Architect to lead the architecture and evolution of the enterprise AI framework. This hands-on senior IC role sets patterns, APIs, and reference implementations enabling teams to build and operate AI solutions at scale.

Responsibilities include solving complex distributed-system challenges, driving technology decisions, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with security, data, and platform teams to ensure governance and