Senior AI Systems Architect & Production Engineer

Jobtailor; Maryland; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a Senior AI/ML Systems Architect to lead architecture, design, deployment, and evolution of production-grade AI agents and intelligent systems. You will define standards for production AI, including observability, guardrails, and security, while guiding reusable capabilities and platform components.

You will influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver scalable AI solutions with measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
• Strong OO programming in Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience leading technical delivery across teams or major initiatives.
• Deep hands-on experience designing AI-enabled systems in production.
• Expertise in agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval-based systems, and prompt engineering.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions on AWS, containerized microservices, and APIs.
• Knowledge of evaluation, observability, guardrails, and failure handling for AI systems.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, deployment, and evolution of production-grade AI agents and intelligent systems.
• Set technical direction across models, orchestration, retrieval, tools, data, infrastructure, latency, cost, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead teams through complex AI problems from experimentation to production scale.
• Define engineering standards for production AI, including evaluation, testing, observability, guardrails, failure handling, security, and responsible deployment.
• Guide reusable AI capabilities and shared platform components.
• Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, tools, and AI engineering approaches.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship.
• Lead technical design and code reviews.
• Incubate AI products, harden them for production, and transition solutions to business teams.
• Ensure AI systems achieve measurable quality, production readiness, observability, safety controls, and sustainable cost of ownership.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI to accelerate workflows and decision-making.
• Engage with business stakeholders, product owners, senior partners, and technology leaders.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into robust AI solutions and architectures.
• Influence technical decisions and communicate AI concepts, architectures, risks, and trade-offs.

Skills

Python

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

AI systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Observability

Security

Continuous delivery

AWS

Containerization

APIs

Microservices

Agent orchestration

Education

CS degree or related field

Tools

AWS

Containerization

APIs

Microservices

AI frameworks

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a Senior AI/ML Systems Architect to lead architecture, design, deployment, and evolution of production-grade AI agents and intelligent systems. You will define standards for production AI, including observability, guardrails, and security, while guiding reusable capabilities and platform components.

You will influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver scalable AI solutions with measurable impact.