Website:
impetus.ai
Job details:
We are building a next-generation AI Observability and Trust Governance platform that helps enterprises monitor, evaluate, and govern their GenAI applications. We are looking for an experienced Architect (8-12 years) who can blend architectural depth with a product development mindset to drive the design and innovation roadmap for new platform capabilities.
This is a hands-on architecture role rather than a pure strategy or pure-development position. You will spend your time on design thinking, capability evaluation, prototyping, and guiding engineering execution - not on being the primary hands-on coder for the team. You will also bring an understanding of DevOps practices and cloud/data platforms, since observability and trust capabilities are deeply intertwined with CI/CD, infrastructure, data pipelines, and operational processes.
Above all, we are looking for someone with genuine curiosity and passion for the GenAI space - someone who is always exploring new models, tools, and techniques, and enjoys staying ahead of a fast-moving field.
DevOps,GenAI,Observability,Cloud
Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Own the end-to-end architecture for the AI observability platform - covering tracing, logging, evaluation, token consumption, monitoring, and governance layers for LLM/GenAI and traditional ML workloads.
- Design scalable, extensible frameworks for capturing model telemetry (prompts, completions, latency, token usage, cost, embeddings, tool calls, agent traces) across multi-model and multi-agent systems.
- Define reference architectures for trust and safety capabilities: hallucination detection, bias/fairness monitoring, PII/data leakage detection, prompt-injection defense, guardrails, and drift detection.
- Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and best practices for the engineering team to follow, and review designs proposed by engineers for soundness and scalability.
Innovation & Capability Development
- Continuously scan and evaluate the fast-evolving GenAI observability landscape (LLM eval frameworks, OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions, guardrail libraries, model risk/governance tools) and make build-vs-buy-vs-integrate recommendations.
- Drive new capabilities from concept through proof-of-concept to production readiness - e.g., RAG evaluation, agentic workflow tracing, automated red-teaming, model cards, AI bill-of-materials / lineage tracking.
- Track regulatory and industry trends (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001) and translate them into practical product features and controls.
- Represent the platform in technical forums, evaluate emerging open-source and commercial tools, and contribute to internal IP and thought-leadership content.
Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product Management to shape the roadmap, write technical specs/RFCs, and prioritize capabilities based on customer and market needs.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and help raise the overall technical and architectural bar across the team.
Guided, Hands-on Involvement (not Primary Development)
- Prototype and validate ideas quickly in Python to prove out architectural concepts before handing off to the engineering team for full-scale build.
- Review critical SDK/API designs and integration frameworks for developer experience, ensuring customers can instrument their AI applications with minimal friction.
- Get hands-on selectively - spikes, POCs, and complex debugging - rather than owning day-to-day feature development.
Key Technical Skills
GenAI & ML Expertise
- Strong conceptual and applied understanding of LLM architectures, RAG pipelines, agentic systems (multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling), fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation methodologies - LLM-as-judge, embedding-based similarity, hallucination/faithfulness scoring, red-teaming, and adversarial testing.
- Good understanding of token optimization
- Working knowledge of responsible AI concepts: bias/fairness metrics and AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO 42001).
- Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search concepts.
Observability, Platform Engineering & DevOps
- Practical experience with observability tooling and standards - OpenTelemetry (including GenAI semantic conventions), distributed tracing, logging/metrics pipelines.
- Awareness of LLM observability tools such as LangSmith, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, TruLens, Traceloop/OpenLLMetry, Datadog LLM Observability
- Exposure to guardrail/safety libraries (Guardrails AI, NeMo Guardrails, Llama Guard, Presidio for PII detection).
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts - event-driven architectures, streaming (Kafka), scalable storage (time-series DBs, columnar stores).
- Exposure to data engineering/platform tools (e.g., Databricks, Spark) for processing large volumes of telemetry, evaluation, and model performance data at scale.
Programming & Engineering
- Good working proficiency in Python - enough to prototype confidently, review code meaningfully, and communicate credibly with engineers; deep day-to-day production coding is not the primary expectation of this role.
- Familiarity with GenAI SDKs/frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure SDKs.
- Hands-on experience working in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Exposure to modern data platforms such as Databricks (or equivalent - Snowflake, EMR) for large-scale data processing, feature/telemetry pipelines, and analytics that feed observability and evaluation workloads.
- Working knowledge of modern microservices/API design principles (REST/gRPC).
Soft Skills & Mindset
- Product development mindset - comfortable with ambiguity, able to translate customer and market problems into clear technical requirements and phased roadmaps.
- Strong systems and design thinking - able to zoom out to architecture while staying grounded in practical implementation trade-offs.
- Curiosity and a bias for continuous learning - genuinely enjoys tracking a fast-moving field and separating hype from substance.
- Excellent communication skills
- Collaborative influence - able to drive alignment and technical decisions across Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Security without relying on positional authority.
- Mentorship orientation - invested in growing engineers' capabilities through design reviews, pairing, and constructive feedback.
- Pragmatic decision-making - balances innovation with delivery timelines and knows when to prototype versus when to commit to a full build.
- Ownership and accountability - takes end-to-end responsibility for architectural outcomes, even across team boundaries.
- Adaptability - stays effective as priorities shift in a fast-evolving, less-defined problem space.
- Genuine passion for exploring new technologies - proactively tries out new GenAI models, tools, and techniques as they emerge, rather than waiting to be asked.
- A perpetual-learner attitude - actively follows GenAI research, product launches, and industry developments, and brings relevant findings back to the team and roadmap.
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