Senior AI/ML Architect & Tech Lead - Hands-On Innovator

SwankTek Inc.; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SwankTek Inc. is seeking a Senior Tech Lead to own orchestration, semantic, and data-foundation design while remaining hands-on. You will mentor engineers, drive evaluation, and push production readiness across multi-domain workflows and agent architectures.

Requirements emphasize Advanced Python, RAG, SPARQL, and BigQuery with an emphasis on data quality, lineage, and trust. Location options include Atlanta, Dallas, or New Jersey with mandatory in-office presence three days per week.

Qualifications

• Own orchestration, semantic, and data-foundation design; remain hands-on; mentor engineers; drive evaluation and production readiness
• Advanced Python; agent services; multi-step workflows; orchestration state; tool invocation; fallback handling; reusable agent patterns
• Standard agent and tool contracts; agent registration; deterministic and LLM-assisted routing; multi-domain execution; model and platform adapters
• Advanced SQL and BigQuery; source discovery; data-gap analysis; data dictionaries; business-key validation; reconciliation; quality, freshness, lineage, and source-of-truth assessment
• Deep RAG expertise; retrieval and reranking; grounding; prompt/context assembly; citation support; hallucination reduction; cross-domain synthesis
• RDF, SPARQL, ontology modeling, SHACL, Stardog, virtual graphs, relational-to-semantic mappings, semantic versioning, and graph promotion

Skills

Orchestration design

Semantic design

Data foundation design

Mentor engineers

Reusable patterns

Advanced Python

Agent services

Multi-step workflows

Orchestration state

Tool invocation

Fallback handling

Reusable agent patterns

Agent contracts

Agent registration

LLM-assisted routing

Multi-domain execution

Model adapters

Platform adapters

Advanced SQL

BigQuery

Source discovery

Data dictionaries

Business-key validation

Data quality

Data freshness

Data lineage

Source of truth

RAG expertise

Retrieval and reranking

Grounding

Prompt assembly

Citation support

Hallucination reduction

Cross-domain synthesis

RDF

SPARQL

Ontology modeling

SHACL

Stardog

Virtual graphs

Relational-to-semantic mappings

Semantic versioning

Graph promotion

Job description

SwankTek Inc. is seeking a Senior Tech Lead to own orchestration, semantic, and data-foundation design while remaining hands-on. You will mentor engineers, drive evaluation, and push production readiness across multi-domain workflows and agent architectures.

Requirements emphasize Advanced Python, RAG, SPARQL, and BigQuery with an emphasis on data quality, lineage, and trust. Location options include Atlanta, Dallas, or New Jersey with mandatory in-office presence three days per week.