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JOB TITLE: Sr. Frontier Lead Developer/Architect (Remote)
The Sr. Frontier Lead Developer/Architect serves as the mid-senior architect of the Frontier pod, owning the design and governance of agentic systems within a specific domain. This role involves translating complex requirements into scalable AI solutions, mentoring Frontier Engineers, and defining AI orchestration architecture, state management, and failure-mode patterns. Key responsibilities include designing custom agents, governing permissions, and engineering enterprise knowledge bases, ontologies, and retrieval pipelines for grounding at scale. The candidate must utilize skills in agentic system architecture, RAG-at-scale, and knowledge graph engineering. Technical requirements include experience with Copilot Studio, Agentforce, Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Angular, Node.js, APIs, and microservices. The work focuses on building AI-native systems that integrate with enterprise applications while ensuring trust-layer governance and quality-assurance frameworks.
Agentic System Architecture
AI Orchestration
RAG
Knowledge Graph
Ontology Engineering
Copilot Studio
Agentforce
Java
Spring Boot
.NET
Node.js
Angular
APIs
Microservices
MCP
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AI Security
Remote (New York, NY)26 days ago
$100,000–$180,000
Generative AI
Agentic AI
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Enterprise Architecture
Responsible AI
Multi-Agent Systems
MLOps
AI Governance
Cloud-native AI Architectures
Azure
AWS
GCP
AI Security
Human-in-the-Loop
AI Operations