Agentic AI Architect - Intelligence Engineering (Central)

Who You’ll Work With

At Slalom, we co-create modern technology and software products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital product development. We imagine how things can be made better, then set out to realize what’s possible — driving innovation with quality, resilience, and purpose. By blending design, product engineering, analytics, and automation, we build the custom-built software and data products of tomorrow. As a member of Intelligence Engineering, you’ll design and deliver innovative AI/ML and agentic AI solutions as part of intelligent products and automating / re-envisioning human workflows on Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud.

What You’ll Do

• Provide thought leadership on AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI internally and with clients, while contributing to a culture of collaboration, learning, and curiosity
• Design end-to-end agentic AI architectures including planning loops, memory management, tool integration, and agent coordination patterns
• Architect multi-agent orchestration systems using frameworks such asStrands Agents SDK,OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, Lang Graph or similar for autonomous reasoning, decision-making, and task execution
• Build advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems including vector databases, embedding strategies, chunking optimization, hybrid search, re-ranking, and multi-source data synthesis
• Build in Python and, where useful, other languages to deliver machine learning systems, APIs, evaluation harnesses, retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, and production services
• Recommend and implement architecture for model and agent pipelines, CI/CD, testing, deployment, observability, andMLOps/LLMOps at scale
• Implement evaluation frameworks (e.g., RAGAS, DeepEval, LangSmith) to measure task success rates, tool-call accuracy, and reasoning integrity for GenAI systems
• Define AI governance frameworks including model risk management, responsible AI practices, regulatory compliance, and authorization boundaries for autonomous decision-making
• Explain model and system behavior to both technical and non-technical audiences, including leading deep technical presentations, workshops, and architecture conversations
• Collaborate with Product Owners to apply Slalom’s agile process and lead the initiation, delivery, and transition of projects in a client-facing role
• Lead and mentor engineers and machine learning practitioners. Lead smaller projects (3 to 5 people) as the technical lead from project initiation to delivery
• Build trusted relationships with customers and collaborate across Slalom teams to share learnings and strengthen the broader Intelligence Engineering practice
• Will be delivery-focused approximately 85–95% of the time
• Willingness to travel up to 50%, at peak times Travel may be required on a limited basis dependent on your client engagement or internal meetings/events.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process.