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This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you’ll own the architecture for production AI agents, set the standards teams follow to take AI from prototype to production, and mentor engineers along the way.\nThe hard problems here aren’t model demos. They’re reliable, safe, observable agent systems running in production: orchestration, memory, guardrails, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop control. You’ll be the person we trust to define what good looks like for AI engineering, and to make sure we build it responsibly.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn the architecture for generative and agentic AI across our SaaS platform, and stay hands-on in the most complex, critical components.\nDesign and ship multi-agent systems that reason, plan, and execute, including the agentic loops, control flow, and failure isolation that keep them reliable in production.\nBuild agent harnesses, reusable agent skills/tools, and MCP servers as the standard tool and integration layer between models and our systems, APIs, and data.\nArchitect RAG systems (including GraphRAG) that ground outputs in trusted data, and event-driven pipelines that trigger and coordinate agents at scale.\nProductize agents end-to-end with guardrails, confidence-score-based routing, human-in-the-loop state machines, evaluation harnesses, tracing, and circuit breakers.\nEmbed responsible-AI practices (privacy, bias mitigation, and auditability) directly into the reasoning and execution loops.\nSet architecture and code-quality standards, run design and code reviews, and mentor engineers; 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