Principal AI Engineering Architect at Robots and Pencils
$180,375–$230,625from the description
Jul 28, 2026
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Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior technical architect at an AI consultancy, responsible for designing and delivering production-grade multi-agent AI systems end-to-end — from cloud and data infrastructure through MLOps and LLM-based applications. The role combines deep AWS and GenAI expertise with cross-functional technical leadership, client-facing strategy, and mentoring of experienced engineers across fast-moving engagements.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 850–3,650
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
No work location is specified in the posting; the role appears to be fully remote based on the absence of any office or geography requirement.
The title says 'Principal' but the requirements (8+ years total, 5 in technical leadership) and scope — senior technical authority on client engagements at a consultancy, not org-wide platform ownership — align more closely with a Senior band. The Principal advertised seniority is reported as stated in the title.
The alt SOC (15-2051 Data Scientists) reflects the heavy AI/ML modeling and MLOps emphasis; however, the dominant day-to-day work is designing and shipping software systems (cloud architecture, agentic pipelines, infrastructure-as-code), so 15-1252 Software Developers is the primary classification.
Multi-agent AI systems is listed as a required skill to capture the core agentic orchestration requirement; it is a capability domain rather than a single named tool, but the posting gates hard on it and no single framework fully represents it alone.
RAG pipelines and vector databases are listed as required skills because the posting explicitly gates on hands-on RAG experience (chunking, embedding models, vector DBs, retrieval techniques) under the requirements section.
Azure and GCP appear in the requirements section but are explicitly framed as 'a plus', so they are marked preferred.
TOGAF and enterprise architecture certifications are listed under 'a plus' in the posting and are marked preferred accordingly.
EventBridge appears only in a parenthetical stack example under requirements; it is captured as preferred given its illustrative rather than gating framing.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): multi-agent AI systems.
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