Robots and Pencils - Tech Lead / AI Architect
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Requirements
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years in architectural leadership roles • Proven, hands-on experience with agentic AI systems — including orchestration frameworks, tool-use patterns, and conversational memory architectures • Direct experience with AWS and AWS Bedrock, including environment provisioning, Guardrails configuration, and integration of cloud-native services and conversational AI systems (STT/TTS) • Experience designing and implementing offline-capable or edge AI systems — including local model inference, constrained runtime environments, and embedded data layers such as SQLite • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language commonly used in AI and cloud-native stacks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js) • Experience building and shipping proof-of-concept or innovation-driven technical programs under real time constraints • Demonstrable usage of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor • Agentic AI: Orchestration frameworks, tool-use patterns, contextual memory, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation and selection • Edge AI: Offline/edge LLM deployment, resource-constrained inference, hardware profile alignment • Cloud: AWS (Bedrock, Guardrails, infrastructure provisioning), distributed systems architecture, REST APIs • Data: Local embedded data layers, synthetic telemetry platforms, edge-to-cloud data synchronization • Voice & UI: Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), tablet-optimized web applications, lightweight dashboard UI • Delivery: Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), agile delivery practices, iterative POC methodology • Collaboration & Communication • Strong hands-on architectural leadership across AI, cloud, and distributed systems; able to balance long-term architecture with short-term delivery goals and make confident decisions in evolving environments • Clear communicator and effective collaborator across engineering, product, UX, and client teams; skilled at explaining complex AI and cloud concepts accessibly and facilitating technical reviews • Bias toward action with strong ownership and ability to manage competing priorities; collaborative leadership style that empowers T-shaped engineering teams • Passion for emerging AI technologies and comfort working with new architectures, unproven solution spaces, and rapid experimentation • You’ll Do Well Here if You Are • A builder who leads. You architect it and then help build it. You are not waiting for someone else to prove your design works. • Comfortable with ambiguity. The requirements will evolve. The models will surprise you. You thrive in that tension. • A fast learner who knows you don’t know everything. The AI landscape changes weekly. You’re senior enough to know better and curious enough to keep learning anyway. • Direct in a way that makes the work better. You give honest feedback. You’d rather have the hard conversation than blow smoke. • Obsessed with craft. You ship exceptional, not perfect, and you don’t put your name on work you wouldn’t stand behind. • All in. You treat clients’ businesses like your own. You take the work seriously without taking yourself seriously.
Responsibilities
• Architecture & Technical Leadership • Define and own end-to-end technical architecture for a dual-mode agentic AI system across offline (edge) and cloud-connected (AWS Bedrock) environments • Drive architectural decision-making across agentic orchestration, data synchronization, voice and chat interfaces, and cloud infrastructure; author and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) • Act as the primary technical authority within the Engineering POD and the key technical interface with client stakeholders • Bring an AI-forward development practice to every phase of the engagement — using tools like Claude, Cursor, and agentic coding assistants as force multipliers across implementation, code review, and technical documentation • Guide and align the engineering team across AI/ML, full stack, and integration workstreams • Hands-On Implementation • Take direct implementation ownership across cloud infrastructure provisioning, local SQLite data layer, cloud data mirror, STT/TTS pipeline integration, and REST API surface • Build and configure the AWS environment end-to-end — including Bedrock, Guardrails, storage, and connectivity services • Implement the edge-to-cloud data synchronization strategy between offline local storage and AWS-hosted data stores • Contribute to agentic orchestration implementation, integration testing, and iterative deployment; support incoming team members with onboarding and context transfer • Agentic AI & Conversational Systems • Design the agentic orchestration layer with tool-use, contextual memory, and conversational interaction patterns for both offline and connected modes • Select an edge LLM based on prior experience with comparable hardware profiles; configure AWS Bedrock with Guardrails for connected-mode reasoning and content safety • Collaborate with the AI/ML Engineer on prompt engineering, model evaluation, and proactive recommendation logic • Ensure architectural consistency and integration quality across voice (STT/TTS) and chat modalities on a shared backend • Delivery & Quality • Delivery & Quality • Provide technical quality assurance and architectural governance across all POD workstreams • Lead cross-functional engineering coordination across AI/ML, full stack, product, and UX tracks • Drive iterative delivery cadence — shipping testable software at each phase review checkpoint and supporting investor-facing demonstrations and POC readouts • Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude, Cursor, and other modern AI assistants to ship higher-quality work at pace
Benefits
• At Robots & Pencils, we design AI systems for a human world — engineering paired with creativity, because every agent we ship has to work for real people in real workflows. This engagement sits at the frontier of applied AI: conversational, agentic intelligence that operates in constrained edge environments and scales to the cloud. The architecture decisions made here will define how our client expands their AI platform from proof-of-concept to production. You are not filling a seat. You are setting the direction. • At Robots & Pencils, you’ll join a global team of engineers, designers, and strategists who care deeply about craftsmanship and innovation. You’ll work on meaningful systems that require both technical excellence and thoughtful collaboration. • If you enjoy building across the stack, solving real integration challenges, and contributing to a high-performing team, we’d love to meet you.
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