[Remote] Principal AI/ML Architect

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations leverage technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). They are seeking a Principal AI/ML Architect to lead client engagements, shape strategy, and provide architectural guidance for machine learning projects, ensuring technical quality and driving business value for customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ML assessments across infrastructure, data pipelines, model lifecycle, and organizational readiness — producing recommendations that drive executive decision-making and earn Caylent the next engagement
• Partner with sales and solutions teams through the proposal and scoping phase, contributing the technical depth needed to shape well-grounded statements of work
• Serve as the senior technical authority on client engagements — possibly across multiple projects simultaneously — providing architectural guidance, ensuring technical quality from your project team members, and getting hands-on when the engagement demands it, without owning day-to-day implementation responsibilities
• Own or orchestrate high-quality POCs that give customers confidence before committing to a larger initiative
• Advise customers on ML operations standards and architecture — covering MLOps pipeline design, model lifecycle management, LLMOps patterns, and production monitoring frameworks — translating operational complexity into decisions and guardrails their teams can own and sustain
• Shape how Caylent wins its most technically complex opportunities — contributing the architectural thinking and credibility that turns prospects into customers
• Strengthen the ML practice from the inside — through peer guidance, technical interviews, and contributions to accelerators, reference architectures, and thought leadership content

Skills

• 10+ years in machine learning or AI, with a proven track record of leading client-facing engagements in a consulting or advisory capacity
• Deep, current knowledge of the AWS ML and GenAI ecosystem, with the ability to make and defend architectural decisions across the full ML lifecycle — from data and feature engineering through training, deployment, and monitoring
• Deep expertise in at least two or three ML domains — whether traditional ML, computer vision, NLP, time series, or others — combined with the judgment to assess, architect, and advise across the broader ML landscape
• Proven ability to architect and govern production ML systems end-to-end, translating MLOps, LLMOps, and broader AI operations complexity into standards and decisions that engineering teams can execute and executives can act on
• Deep expertise across foundation model adaptation — fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT), alignment (RLHF, DPO), inference optimization (quantization, vLLM), and distributed training (DeepSpeed, FSDP) — combined with RAG and agentic system design, including multi-agent architectures, event-driven workflows, MCP integration, and human-in-the-loop patterns on AWS. Technical authority to prescribe the right approach and set architectural standards that teams can execute against
• Proven ability to operate independently in complex customer environments — navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and translating ML tradeoffs into business risk and value for both technical and executive audiences
• AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Experience shaping practice-level standards, reference architectures, and reusable ML accelerators across multiple engagements
• Exposure to varied industries and problem types in a consulting or client-facing context
• Deep fluency in responsible AI practices — model evaluation, bias detection, fairness frameworks, and AI governance — applied in enterprise deployments
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying SRE agents and AI-driven operations workflows in production — spanning automated incident detection, triage, and remediation — with the ability to integrate across observability platforms and translate AI operations outcomes into measurable business value

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Private Health Insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• Competitive phantom equity
• Paid for exams and certifications
• Peer bonus awards
• State of the art laptop and tools
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Individual professional development plan
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture

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