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Governments and businesses (in finance, manufacturing, retail and more) tailor these applications to give their organization a distinct competitive advantage and optimize them to meet the most demanding operational service level agreements. With a pledge to innovate Adabas & Natural to 2050 and beyond, we ensure our customer’s mission-critical Adabas & Natural applications are Future ready. Now. \nBe you, join us. \nAI Architect \nFull time\nLocation: United States East Coast, Remote.\nSoftware AG customers, large enterprises and government organizations around the world, have developed business-critical applications based on high-transaction processing enterprise databases such as Adabas (DBMS), Natural (Programming Language), CONNX (Data Integration) and JOPAZ (workload optimization). 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Represent Software AG in relevant industry bodies and standards groups when needed.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, engineering, and solution architects to drive, coordinate and deliver AI capabilities.\nThought Leadership: Present at internal and external conferences, webinars, and in written content. Explain complex topics in a way that both technical and business audiences understand.\nContinuous Learning & Team Enablement: Keep pace with fast-moving AI technologies and trends, and continuously educate and upskill internal teams - product management, engineering, consulting, and support - through training sessions, hands-on workshops, and shared best practices.\nMinimum Requirements \nExperience: minimum of 8 years in software architecture, data integration, or solution engineering, with at least 2 years of hands-on work with generative AI in production or customer-facing projects.\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. Advanced degrees such as Masters or PhD is preferred.\nTechnical Skills:\nProven hands-on experience with LLMs and agentic AI: context engineering, tool calling, RAG-based architecture, agent frameworks, MCP and A2A protocols, and MLOps practices.\nStrong programming skills in Python or Typescript, AI frameworks and tools (e.g., PyTorch, Langchain, LlamaIndex, Transformers, ONNX).\nSolid understanding of enterprise data access: SQL, ODBC/JDBC, REST APIs, and data security concepts such as access control and data masking.\nExperience with at least one major cloud AI platform (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex) and with running models on premises.\nProficiency in Linux, virtualization, version control, and containerization technologies.\nTechnical skills, nice to have:\nKnowledge of Adabas, Natural, or CONNX.\nExperience with mainframe or non-relational data: VSAM, IMS, COBOL copybooks, hierarchical structures.\nExperience building evaluation pipelines or benchmarks for AI output.\nExperience with fine-tuning open-weight AI models.\nSoft Skills:\nExcellent problem-solving skills, with a keen ability to troubleshoot and solve complex tasks.\nEffective communication and presentation skills (verbal, written) in English to convey technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nCustomer-focused mindset: Proven ability to collaborate effectively with customers and partners, understanding their needs and providing tailored solutions.\nCollaborative team player and experience in enabling and mentoring stakeholders.\nAbility to work in a highly agile environment with globally distributed teams.\nSelf-learning and self-driving attitude delivering results according to goals and measurements.\nProven ability to collaborate with R&D to drive success.\nStrong organizational and time-management skills to effectively manage multiple tasks and deadlines.\nSelf-learning and self-driving attitude delivering results.\nOccasional international travel is required (less than 20%).\n\nApplication Deadline- 10/30/2026\nWhat’s in it for you?\nCompensation\nThe annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 - 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