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Principal Architect leading AI solutions for Vectara with a focus on cloud and on-premises systems. Role requires extensive experience in software development and technical advisory in Professional Services.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary architect for client solutions, assisting customers with complex architecture and design decisions for both cloud-based (SaaS, VPC) and on-premises AI systems.
- Lead the hands-on design and development of AI solutions, including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM-powered applications.
- Serve as the technical lead for Professional Services engagements, coordinating between the customer’s technical staff and Vectara’s internal Product and Engineering teams to ensure delivery excellence.
- Conduct deep evaluations and performance tuning of retrieval and agentic pipelines to ensure applications meet rigorous enterprise requirements.
- Present sophisticated technical strategies to customer leadership, translating complex AI concepts into clear, impactful business value.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of total experience, including 5+ years in software development and 5+ years in a senior technical-client-facing role within a Professional Services organization.
- Deep knowledge in AI, ML, search, RAG, LLMs, agentic AI, and/or data engineering.
- Expert-level proficiency with REST services and at least one major language: Python, JavaScript, or Java.
- Ability to work effectively within a modern CI/CD and DevOps environment.
- Comprehensive understanding of cloud-based platforms (multi-tenancy, automation, fault tolerance) and on-premises infrastructure (GPUs, virtualization/k8s).
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and implementation approaches with clarity, purpose, empathy, and influence.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; a Master’s degree (MS) is highly preferred.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time for onsite work.
Benefits:
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision for employees.
- Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time and holidays.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities and more.
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