Senior Frontline AI Architect & Orchestration Lead

Verizon; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with business units and solve high-stakes operational challenges. You will architect and deploy production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, and full-stack microservices across cloud runtimes.

You’ll lead design through executive stakeholders, mentor engineers, and develop reusable SDKs and pipelines. This hybrid role combines on-site collaboration with remote work flexibility.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in AI engineering or related roles.
• 4+ years of shipping production software and/or deploying LLM applications.
• Proficiency in Python and modern TypeScript/JavaScript for full-stack API integration and backend orchestration.
• Demonstrated ability to scope ambiguous technical initiatives and present architectural designs to senior executives.
• Experience interfacing directly with enterprise stakeholders to translate requirements into architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define the full-stack architecture for embedded AI initiatives, including multi-agent orchestration and state machines.
• Architect agentic workflows with governance rules using LangGraph/Temporal or state machines; establish tool calling protocols.
• Design production RAG infrastructure with hybrid search and semantic caching; scale Verizon context architecture.
• Deploy production agent services and workflows to runtimes like Domino, Airflow, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
• Design offline/online evaluation frameworks to measure model drift and performance.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Full-stack development

LLM frameworks

API design

Cloud platforms

Observability & eval pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

Domino Data Lab

Apache Airflow

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with business units and solve high-stakes operational challenges. You will architect and deploy production-grade agentic systems, enterprise RAG engines, and full-stack microservices across cloud runtimes.

You’ll lead design through executive stakeholders, mentor engineers, and develop reusable SDKs and pipelines. This hybrid role combines on-site collaboration with remote work flexibility.