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    Principal AI Architect / Enterprise AI Platform Architect

    Full-time
    India
    Aug 20, 2026
    Remote
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    Overview

    Item.com is seeking a hands-on principal architect to define and evolve the enterprise AI platform that product and engineering teams build on. This role establishes the architecture, standards, governance, and operating model for secure, scalable AI capabilities. Contract position. Must work U.S. PST hours.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Create a durable enterprise AI platform strategy and reference architecture.
    • Enable multiple teams to build and operate AI capabilities safely and consistently.
    • Balance innovation with security, governance, reliability, cost control, and long-term maintainability.
    • Define target architecture for model access, data boundaries, retrieval, tools, agent execution, evaluation, observability, identity, and auditability.
    • Establish reusable platform capabilities, technical standards, reference implementations, and adoption roadmaps.

    Pay and Benefits

    Compensation

    $4k - $6k

    Requirements

    • Proven hands-on architecture ownership for enterprise-scale platforms, AI/ML systems, distributed systems, or a combination of these.
    • Experience designing secure multi-team/multi-tenant platforms with operational governance and adoption models.
    • Demonstrated judgment on model/vendor selection, data controls, security, evaluation, observability, cost, and reliability.
    • Ability to communicate architecture and tradeoffs to engineers, executives, and operational leaders.
    • Principal-level scope must be evidenced by platforms or standards others adopted—not title alone.

    Skills

    Architect the platform and operating model that lets many teams build AI systems safely, reliably, and economically—not merely one application or a portfolio of pilots.

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