Senior GenAI Architect: Production‑Ready & Scale Leader

Egen; United States; Remote; USD 219,245 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO)

Paid Holidays

Sick Leave

Parental Leave

Bereavement Leave

401(k) Employer Match

Employee Referral Bonuses

Job summary

Egen is seeking a Principal AI Engineer in the United States to set the technical direction for our most complex Generative AI work. You will architect end-to-end GenAI and agentic systems, stay hands-on with core model work, and ensure production-grade quality with observability and responsible AI.

You will partner with client leadership in pre‑sales, translate strategy into AI architecture, and mentor engineers to raise the practice. Compensation reflects seniority and geography.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years in software / AI / ML engineering with production AI systems.
• Proven technical leadership—owning architecture and direction across engagements or teams.
• Proven track record deploying GenAI and/or agentic products to production environments.
• Strong data engineering and SQL knowledge.
• Senior client-facing experience translating technical complexity into business value.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for complex GenAI and agentic systems from end to end.
• Stay hands-on with foundation-model and embedding fine-tuning, agentic workflows, RAG and semantic search.
• Design for latency, reliability, cost, and scale; apply MLOps to production systems.
• Architect and operate agentic workflows that automate complex reasoning reliably.
• Advise clients and shape deals by translating strategy into AI architecture in pre‑sales.
• Mentor and elevate senior/mid-level engineers through architecture reviews.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Google Cloud

Vertex AI

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Vector search

Production software

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Pinecone

pgvector

Vertex AI

Job description

Egen is seeking a Principal AI Engineer in the United States to set the technical direction for our most complex Generative AI work. You will architect end-to-end GenAI and agentic systems, stay hands-on with core model work, and ensure production-grade quality with observability and responsible AI.

You will partner with client leadership in pre‑sales, translate strategy into AI architecture, and mentor engineers to raise the practice. Compensation reflects seniority and geography.