AI Architect for Software Development

About the role

Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists working in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, with a total commitment and competitive personality.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-agent workflows with an orchestrator, specialized agents, and shared memory.
• Define agent interfaces, policies, and error-handling/repair strategies.
• Select, distill, fine-tune, and evaluate LLM/SLM/VLA models.
• Build document ingestion pipelines with chunking, metadata tagging, and embeddings.
• Develop multi-layer guardrails using schema validation, rule-based checks, and policy engines.
• Implement self-critique, repair loops, and fallback strategies for model outputs.
• Build model serving pipelines (vLLM/TGI/Triton), caching, batching, and streaming.
• Implement logging, tracing, observability, and offline evaluation pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years building ML or LLM-powered products (multi-agent systems preferred).
• Experience with LLM fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), distillation, and prompt engineering.
• Strong understanding of LLM internal architecture (transformers, attention, tokenization).
• Expertise in Python, PyTorch, and modern AI frameworks (HuggingFace, vLLM, LangChain).
• Experience building robust RAG pipelines (embedding optimization, retrieval metrics).
• Experience designing structured model interactions (JSON schema, function-calling, tool-use).

Qualifications

• Expertise in Python, PyTorch, and modern AI frameworks (HuggingFace, vLLM, LangChain).
• Experience building robust RAG pipelines (embedding optimization, retrieval metrics).
• Experience designing structured model interactions (JSON schema, function-calling, tool-use).

Skills

• Experience with LLM fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), distillation, and prompt engineering.
• Strong understanding of LLM internal architecture (transformers, attention, tokenization).
• Expertise in Python, PyTorch, and modern AI frameworks (HuggingFace, vLLM, LangChain).
• Experience building robust RAG pipelines (embedding optimization, retrieval metrics).
• Experience designing structured model interactions (JSON schema, function-calling, tool-use).

Benefits

• Base pay range: $260,000 to $280,000 per year.
• Incentive plan bonus.
• New hire equity for a competitive total compensation package.
• Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, and more!

Pay & Benefits

• Consistent with Lattice Semiconductor values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity.
• We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location.
• The base pay range is a guideline, and our compensation range reflects the cost of labor in the U.S. geographic market based on the location of the role.
• Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and relevant work experience.
• For candidates who receive and offer, the starting salary will vary based on various factors including, but not limited to, such qualifications as, skill level, competencies, and work location.
• The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee.
• Base Pay Range: $273,000.
• In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for variable/incentive compensation and/or equity.
• This role is eligible for a comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, and more!

Additional Information

• This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in the United States.
• Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry.
• Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry.
• Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions.
• Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win.
• For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com.
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• At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace.
• Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.