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You will lead engagements across enterprise, startup, and government customers, making architecture decisions across modern and emerging AI domains, often in environments where there is no existing playbook.\nWhat you will do\nWork directly inside customer environments across enterprises, startups, and governments to develop a deep understanding of their business, operations, and strategic priorities.\n\nLead the technical response to enterprise and government tenders and RFPs, defining solution architecture and crafting high-quality bid submissions\n\nMake architecture decisions across modern and emerging AI domains, selecting tools, technologies and design patterns that fit the problem, the customer's constraints, and the realities of production.\n\nRun discovery workshops to uncover high-impact AI and data use-cases and translate them into well-scoped, actionable solutions.\n\nLead proofs of concept end to end, from hypothesis to outcome, using them to de-risk architecture decisions and build technical credibility with the customer.\n\nOwn delivery execution on your engagements, taking full accountability for quality, technical direction, and outcomes through to production.\n\nMaintain alignment with senior customer stakeholders throughout the engagement, surfacing risks, managing expectations, and holding the technical narrative clearly at every stage.\n\nDefine engineering standards and review architecture and design decisions made by the teams working under your engagements.\n\nStay close to emerging AI research and tooling and make clear-eyed judgments on what is production-ready and relevant for the problems you are solving.\n\nAdhere to Rootcode’s established information security policies and procedures, including but not limited to data protection, access controls, encryption standards, and secure coding practices.\n\nWhat we expect\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field\n\n8+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software, with at least 3+ years leading architecture and engineering of AI or ML systems, with hands-on exposure to modern AI domains including LLMs, RAG, or agentic systems.\n\nProven ability to work independently within customer environments, lead technical discovery, and manage engagement execution across one or more of startups, enterprises, and government customers.\n\nDeep experience designing and owning solution architecture across varying scales and levels of complexity, with a strong grasp of modern AI and data architecture design patterns\n\nExperience working across data and integration layers through to application and AI services\n\nExperience designing systems that meet enterprise-grade requirements around security, scalability, reliability, observability, and compliance\n\nExperience making and defending architecture decisions on complex, real-world systems under ambiguity\n\nExperience mentoring and guiding engineers on architecture decisions and engineering best practices\n\nExperience leading technical conversations with senior stakeholders including C-suite decision-makers, and translating complex technical decisions into clear business terms\n\nExperience leading technical responses to enterprise and government tenders and RFPs is an advantage\n\nImportantly, we are looking for someone who will live by our core values that define everything we do: Excellence, Collaboration, and Integrity.\nWhat is it like to work at Rootcode\nWork is a large part of our lives, so we aim to create an environment that feels supportive and open. 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