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Bring deep, hands-on expertise in agent behaviour, evaluation, and information retrieval, and turn that expertise into buildable designs, reference implementations, and standards that the engineering pods can ship reliably.\n\nContext : \n\nWe are a small, high-leverage AI organization with two complementary disciplines : AI Engineering and Platform Engineering. Our commercial thesis is vendor-neutral and accelerator-led : reusable components that fill gaps in or complement hyperscaler offerings. The AI/ML Architect is the senior technical authority for the intelligence and behaviour of our agents, working as a peer to the Platform Architect, who owns the runtime and platform substrate.\n\nWhat you'll do : \n\n- Own agentic-system architecture. Define how agents reason, plan, use tools, maintain state, recover from failure, collaborate, and involve humans.\n\n- Design harness behaviour. 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