Staff Engineer — AI Systems Architect (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (Germany-wide)

Direct CTO access

International team collaboration

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Heartbeat AI is seeking a Senior Software Architect to own the engineering domain, including Mobile Apps, Energy Data, and IoT Platform. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for performance, security, and reliability across systems powering AI agents.

You will lead architecture for APIs, detect and fix hard problems, and ensure alignment with product goals while embedding secure, reliable practices throughout the stack.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in software development across multiple languages.
• Proven track record of architecting scalable and secure systems.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs for integration.
• Agile, results-oriented mindset with teamwork.
• Experience communicating with stakeholders in business terms.
• Experience guiding a team through agentic engineering shift.
• Experience architecting AI/ML-driven or data-intensive systems.
• Strong English communication; German a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction across Heartbeat AI's engineering domain.
• Ensure consistent execution of technical decisions within your domain.
• Set the technical bar and tackle hard problems yourself.
• Translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers to accelerate growth.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture.
• Embed security and reliability as customer value.
• Architect systems and APIs for agentic AI with structured errors.
• Drive shift to agentic engineering and safe human accountability.
• Own architecture of AI systems powering the product, from EMS to tariffs.
• Work with AI-assisted development tools and cloud infra.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver integrated energy solutions.

Skills

Software architecture

API design

Team leadership

TypeScript

Go

Tools

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

Heartbeat AI is seeking a Senior Software Architect to own the engineering domain, including Mobile Apps, Energy Data, and IoT Platform. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for performance, security, and reliability across systems powering AI agents.

You will lead architecture for APIs, detect and fix hard problems, and ensure alignment with product goals while embedding secure, reliable practices throughout the stack.