Senior AI Systems Architect - Remote/Hybrid

Arenatechnologies; El Segundo, Colorado Springs (CA, CO); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks a Principal Solutions Architect – AI Systems to lead the architecture of an AI-enabled decision-support system within an existing operational environment. This role focuses on AI reasoning, deterministic logic, data, and human decision authority, ensuring trust, auditability, and mission impact.

It is a systems architecture position, not model development. The candidate will own end-to-end architecture, define AI inference boundaries, and drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience architecting production AI-enabled systems.
• Strong understanding of AI failure modes, uncertainty, and validation at the system level.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for an AI-augmented operational system.
• Define how AI inference is bounded by constraints, validated, and surfaced for human decision-making.
• Design agent-based and workflow-driven architectures that combine probabilistic and deterministic reasoning.
• Lead integration into existing platforms using API-first, zero-trust, container-native patterns.
• Establish architectural patterns for traceability, auditability, and responsible AI.
• Serve as the senior technical authority across delivery increments

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

Containerization

AI integration patterns

Observability

Human-in-the-loop

Education

Bachelor’s degree (CS/Engineering/related)

Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks a Principal Solutions Architect – AI Systems to lead the architecture of an AI-enabled decision-support system within an existing operational environment. This role focuses on AI reasoning, deterministic logic, data, and human decision authority, ensuring trust, auditability, and mission impact.

It is a systems architecture position, not model development. The candidate will own end-to-end architecture, define AI inference boundaries, and drive