Principal AI Architect - Remote

• Partner with business and technology leadership to define AI strategy, roadmap, and execution priorities.
• Establish and promote architecture standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Mentor architects and engineers; build internal capability for AI solution delivery.
• Communicate complex AI concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leads adoption of AI-enabled tools within the team, ensuring effective integration into workflows. Coaches employees on appropriate usage, monitors impact on productivity and quality and identifies opportunities for process improvement.
• Demonstrates a customer-first mindset by developing a broad and deep (where appropriate) understanding of Paradigm organization, products, operations, and customers. Prioritizes collaboration to meet customer needs and expectations and takes personal accountability for service quality.

• Continuously evaluate the evolving AI landscape (LLMs, agents, frameworks, tools).
• Translate emerging technologies into practical enterprise use cases and capabilities.
• Drive modernization initiatives to improve scalability, resilience, and performance.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and enterprise system design.
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end AI/ML and Generative AI solutions in production environments.
• Strong hands-on engineering capability with ability to operate across architecture, design, and implementation.
• Deep expertise in LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and agent-based systems
• Experience with agent frameworks and orchestration including multi-agent patterns and integrations
• Strong programming experience in Python and building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, containerization, and scalable deployment of AI systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep) and Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Strong understanding of data architecture and integration patterns supporting AI workloads.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and translate them into enterprise-scale capabilities
• Solid knowledge of AI governance, risk, compliance, privacy, and responsible AI principles
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence decisions across engineering, data, and business teams.
• Proven ability to mentor, guide, and elevate engineering and architecture teams.
• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related STEM field.

• Health and wellness – We want our people to be and stay healthy, so we offer PPO, HDHP, and HMO health insurance options with Cigna and Kaiser (CA employees only).
• Financial incentives – Paradigm’s financial benefits help prepare you for the future: competitive salaries, 401(k) matching contributions, employer-paid life and disability insurance, flexible spending and commuter accounts, and employer-matched HSA contributions.
• Vacation - We believe strongly that work-life balance is good for you and for our company. Our paid time off and personal holiday programs give you the flexibility you need to live your life to the fullest.
• Volunteer time – We want our employees to engage with and give back to their communities in meaningful ways. Full and part-time employees receive one paid day per calendar year.
• Learning and development: One of Paradigm’s core values is expertise, so we encourage our employees to continually learn and grow. We support this in a variety of ways, including our new Learning Excellence at Paradigm (LEAP) program.

Paradigm believes that fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace is central to our mission of helping more people and transforming lives.

We’re striving to build a culture that better reflects the society we live in and empowers our team to deliver the highest levels of compassion and care to those we serve.

For us, achieving this goal requires a workforce that respectfully embraces differences and commits to positive change, creating an environment where everyone is able to bring their whole self to work.

Paradigm complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Leave Management at leave.management@paradigmcorp.com .

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

As a contractor with the State of Wisconsin, Paradigm complies with Wisconsin Contract Compliance Law (§16.765).

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