Sphera creates a safer, more sustainable and productive world.
Senior Principal Architect, AI
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$173K - $277K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Principal Architect, AI
Sphera
• Own and operate the AIDLC — Sphera's agentic software delivery framework that applies across all engineering, not just AI projects. • Serve as the senior technical practitioner within the AI COE — personally designing, building, and guiding AI solutions from concept through production across the portfolio. • Establish and enforce the defined delivery roles across squads — ensuring each role operates within its scope and that agentic execution is properly supervised and validated at every stage. • Drive adoption of the AIDLC operating model across engineering teams — onboarding squads, enforcing framework discipline, and intervening where teams drift toward ad-hoc approaches or accumulate governance gaps. • Create and apply AI solution evaluation frameworks — covering prompt quality, model accuracy, latency, cost, and production reliability — and monitor deployed features for drift and degradation. • Evaluate and benchmark emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks through structured experimentation, producing clear technical recommendations from hands-on testing. • Collaborate fluidly with engineering, product, InfoSec, Legal, and senior leadership, translating technical depth and business consequence depending on the audience.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience building production AI systems.
- 8+ years in software or platform engineering or solutions architecture, with a clear shift toward AI/ML implementation in recent roles.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering production AI solutions — LLM applications, RAG systems, agentic workflows, or multi-model orchestration pipelines.
- Deep practical knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, vector stores, and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or Semantic Kernel.
- Fluent in Python; comfortable across the full AI stack including Azure AI Foundry, Azure Data Lake, APIM, and Databricks Mosaic AI.
- Experience owning an AI delivery lifecycle or methodology — including standards definition, team onboarding, and process governance across concurrent projects.
- Familiarity with agentic AI tooling including Claude Code and Claude Desktop with MCP servers, and structured artifact-driven delivery models.
- Experience developing corporate AI governance frameworks — acceptable use policies, model approval processes, usage management, and audit readiness.
- Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act; experience partnering with Legal and InfoSec to operationalize AI compliance obligations.
- Strong communicator — able to translate architectural and governance decisions clearly across engineering teams, product owners, and executive leadership.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Flexible Working Schedule
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