Senior AI Platform Architect & Framework Lead

Ashley Furniture co.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashley Furniture co. invites a Principal AI Framework Architect to shape the enterprise AI framework, enabling teams to securely operate AI applications at scale. The role is deeply hands-on, spanning system architecture, prototyping, and production problem-solving to establish foundational patterns for a broad AI ecosystem.

You will move between technical leadership and practical implementation, guiding design reviews and mentoring engineers without people management being a primary duty.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing enterprise-scale software frameworks and distributed systems.
• Hands-on software engineering in Python, Java, or Go, with architecture-to-implementation ability.
• Experience with GenAI, AI agents, tool calling, and AI application architecture.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native systems, microservices, containers, and observability.
• Ability to evaluate emerging AI technologies and translate them into durable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architecture and evolution of the enterprise AI framework.
• Design scalable, secure, and observable patterns for AI agents and workflows.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate complex architecture clearly.
• Build reference implementations and reusable libraries, APIs, and patterns.
• Diagnose complex distributed-system issues and drive production improvements.
• Collaborate with enterprise infra, security, data, and platform services.

Skills

Senior individual contributor

Architecture leadership

Python

Java

Go

Cloud-native

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Ashley Furniture co. invites a Principal AI Framework Architect to shape the enterprise AI framework, enabling teams to securely operate AI applications at scale. The role is deeply hands-on, spanning system architecture, prototyping, and production problem-solving to establish foundational patterns for a broad AI ecosystem.

You will move between technical leadership and practical implementation, guiding design reviews and mentoring engineers without people management being a primary duty.