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Skew Talent · 16 hours ago

AI Architecture Lead

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

Skew Talent is working with AI Foundry, an AI consulting business that collaborates with major global companies. They are seeking an architecture leader to design and build large-scale multi-agent AI systems that will transform interactions in finance, retail, and consumer products.

Staffing & Recruiting

Hiring Manager

Kathleen Walsh

Responsibilities

Design and architect large-scale multi-agent AI systems serving hundreds of millions of users

Hold global engineering teams accountable to ambitious technical visions, demonstrating architectural patterns and raising the bar

Lead calls with overseas teams to review progress, present architectures, and provide technical guidance

Rapidly compose and scale multi-agent architectures using cutting-edge AI capabilities

Demonstrate concepts and architectural patterns through code when needed (you won't write production code constantly, but you need to be willing and able to code to prove a point)

Stay on the bleeding edge of AI development and continuously skill up as the field evolves

Work collaboratively across product, engineering, and with executive stakeholders

Ensure systems maintain best practices and sound design principles while pushing AI-native approaches

Travel to visit the client teams overseas periodically

Qualification

Multi-agent AI systemsArchitectural patternsScaling systemsAI-native approachesCommunication skillsSolutions-orientedComfortable with ambiguityCollaborative

Required

Deep fluency with large multi-agent AI systems and agentic architectures; you understand how they work, how to compose them, how to scale them, and how to stay fluent as the field evolves

You know how to code and have built real systems at scale. You won't need to code constantly in this role, but you need to be capable and willing when needed

Experience rapidly composing and scaling multi-agent architectures with a strong understanding of the components, guardrails, and best practices

Comfortable thinking big; you can hold ambitious visions for systems serving hundreds of millions of users

Able to hold a high bar and push teams toward excellence without being a know-it-all

Hungry and scrappy, you figure things out, you don't wait to be told, and you get energized by challenges

AI-native in your approach, you use AI tools extensively in your own work and understand how to build AI-first systems

Strong communication skills: you can articulate technical concepts clearly and create documentation that guides teams across time zones

Demonstrated ability to rapidly skill up and stay on the cutting edge of AI (this field moves fast, and you need to move with it and remain a bleeding edge-expert)

Ability to argue for correctness from an AI-native perspective without losing sight of good systems design principles

Ability to sit in a room and confidently say 'this is what I think is correct' when speaking to global leaders

Collaborative and collegial: you work through problems with others, you don't insist your way is the only way, and you can let things go and move forward

Comfortable with ambiguity and an ability to take confident action when there are missing details

Positive and solutions-oriented, you work around obstacles rather than dwelling on setbacks