Tech Lead / Lead Architect – RAG and Agentic AI

Job Title: Tech Lead / Lead Architect – RAG & Agentic AI

Location: Columbus, OH/ Wilmington, DE – 3 days onsite role

Local candidate: locals only

Duration: Long Term Project

Interview Mode: Phone video

Visa: H1B

 

Role Summary:
Lead architecture, design, and delivery of Agentic AI and RAG-based solutions, partnering with customers and internal teams to build scalable, secure, and high-impact AI systems.

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Must-Have:

1. Strong experience in RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector DBs, LLM orchestration, and prompting techniques.
2. Hands-on expertise in AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock, S3, OpenSearch, IAM, VPC, Secrets Manager).
3. Ability to design end-to-end AI architecture and build PoCs before committing solutions to customers.
4. Deep understanding of AI guardrails (toxicity, hallucination control), data privacy, and cloud security patterns.
5. Proven ability to lead from the front, mentor teams, and own delivery under tight timelines and high visibility.
6. Strong customer communication skills – ability to explain architecture, trade-offs, and risks clearly.
7. Experience handling model evaluation, observability, performance tuning, and cost optimization in production AI systems.
8. Expertise in API design, microservices integration, and event-driven architectures for AI systems.

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Good-to-Have:

1. Experience with Agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, etc.).
2. Exposure to marketing domain use cases (campaign optimization, personalization, analytics, insights).
3. Familiarity with multi-agent orchestration, tool usage (MCP), and human-in-loop workflows.