Staff AI Architect & Systems Lead

RiseMe; California (MO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff AI Builder to lead the design and delivery of AI/ML systems. This role suits an experienced engineer who owns end-to-end architecture and influences technical direction across the team.

You will join a cross-functional group to define AI architecture, drive model development, and tackle integration challenges with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability. Real, in-flight work means you’ll shape how AI products perform in real workflows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on agentic AI and GenAI systems in production.
• Experience with AWS GenAI stack and cloud-native services.
• Strong Python and Node.js skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic workflows across single- and multi-agent architectures.
• Define AI architecture and lead model development and optimization.
• Solve challenging integration problems with reliability and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical leadership.
• Own features end-to-end including debugging and production readiness.

Skills

Agentic AI

RAG

Python

Node.js

AWS GenAI stack

Docker

LLM observability

Prompt engineering

Production reliability

Multi-agent systems

Tools

OpenSearch

LangFuse

LangSmith

Bedrock

DynamoDB

S3

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff AI Builder to lead the design and delivery of AI/ML systems. This role suits an experienced engineer who owns end-to-end architecture and influences technical direction across the team.

You will join a cross-functional group to define AI architecture, drive model development, and tackle integration challenges with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability. Real, in-flight work means you’ll shape how AI products perform in real workflows.