Senior AI architect shaping enterprise LLM engagements for Bits In Glass and ConveneAI. Governing architecture, building reusable standards, and mentoring delivery teams.
Responsibilities
Shape client engagements during the sales cycle by assessing technical feasibility and realistic 8–12-week production scope
Push back on requirements that cannot be delivered before contractual commitments
Own architecture decisions covering model selection, build versus buy, accelerator reuse, bespoke work, and hosting approach
Write technical sections of proposals and statements of work
Help define measurable and defensible outcome metrics
Represent ConveneAI in client architecture, security, and vendor review boards
Run architecture reviews at kickoff and defined gates for every live engagement
Govern decisions involving data residency, inference hosting, identity and access, network isolation, and systems-of-record integration
Unblock pods through pairing and review
Own technical escalations and provide candid status assessments to the Product Owner and leadership
Monitor inference cost, latency, and reliability across engagements
Own the ConveneAI reference architecture and accelerator library
Set standards for agent design, evaluation, observability, security, and cost management
Evaluate models, frameworks, and tooling for inclusion in the standard stack
Build reusable technical assets that improve pod delivery efficiency
Mentor GenAI Engineers and Data Engineers through design and code review
Interview and calibrate technical hires and help define the engineering career path
Collaborate with senior AI architects across the global operating bench to maintain consistent standards
Read code, prototype solutions, and defend designs before bank and insurer architecture review boards
Requirements
10 or more years building and shipping enterprise software
At least 2 years on production LLM or agentic systems that real users depended on
Track record as the technical owner across multiple concurrent client engagements
Deep hands-on capability with Python, cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP), distributed systems, and API and integration design
Production experience with agent architectures, retrieval at enterprise scale, evaluation, cost per task, latency, observability, and AI-system failure modes
Enterprise architecture fluency covering identity and access, security posture, data residency, network isolation, and model hosting options
Experience getting a regulated client's review board to approve a design
Commercial literacy, including understanding how architecture decisions affect gross margin on fixed-fee engagements
Credibility with client CIOs or Chief Architects and hands-on engineers
Judgement to recommend against undeliverable deals and hold that position under commercial pressure
Legally entitled to work in Canada
Willing to travel to client sites
Bonus: architecture leadership at a consultancy or systems integrator, or Field CTO/principal architect experience at an AI, data, or cloud platform vendor
Bonus: regulated-industry experience with systems such as Guidewire, Duck Creek, core banking, or clinical systems
Bonus: self-hosted or open-weight model deployment, fine-tuning, distillation, and private inference architecture
Bonus: experience building reusable reference architectures or accelerator libraries
Bonus: experience scaling a delivery organisation
Bonus: published writing, conference talks, or open-source work on applied AI architecture
Benefits
Meaningful equity at the stage where technical decisions determine whether the delivery model scales or stalls
Initial employment on Bits In Glass payroll with intended transition to a permanent position directly with Convene AI after approximately 12–18 months, subject to business requirements and transition arrangements
Collaboration with the support, culture, and established consulting expertise of Bits In Glass
Direct working relationship with the founders and senior AI operators
Genuine breadth across pre-sales shaping through production operations and multiple industries
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