Staff AI Architect - Forward-Deployed Solutions

Robots & Pencils; United States; On-site; USD 177,375 - 209,625; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils seeks a Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead end-to-end design, delivery, and adoption of AI/ML systems directly within client environments. You will own architecture decisions, deliver production-grade pipelines, and drive measurable outcomes in client partnerships.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in software engineering with production AI/ML experience, strong Python skills, and deep cloud and AI tooling expertise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record in AI/ML systems.
• Strong design sensibilities for scalable, maintainable systems.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms and AWS GenAI offerings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end AI/ML systems within client environments.
• Build and evolve scalable ML platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Diagnose integration challenges in live systems across cloud environments.
• Drive adoption of AI systems post-delivery and mentor engineers.

Skills

Senior software engineer

AI/ML in production

Python

Cloud platforms

AI safety

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Claude Code

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Job description

Robots & Pencils seeks a Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer to lead end-to-end design, delivery, and adoption of AI/ML systems directly within client environments. You will own architecture decisions, deliver production-grade pipelines, and drive measurable outcomes in client partnerships.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in software engineering with production AI/ML experience, strong Python skills, and deep cloud and AI tooling expertise.