Principal Architect – Agentic Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the technical execution of agentic engineering transformations at designated Vista portfolio companies, guiding efforts from initial assessment and proof of concept to implementation, scaling, and handoff.

• Evaluate engineering environments, assessing repository readiness, current AI usage, infrastructure deficiencies, and high-impact use cases.

• Collaborate directly with engineers from portfolio companies to develop and implement knowledge layers, agents, orchestration, evaluations, guardrails, and observability mechanisms.

• Identify and resolve technical issues across repositories, workflows, agent configurations, and evaluation frameworks.

• Create reusable reference architectures, agent libraries, technical standards, evaluation frameworks, and implementation patterns for the Vista portfolio.

• Implement controls for identity, permissions, evaluations, auditability, escalation processes, and human-in-the-loop decision-making.

• Assess AI platforms, models, development tools, and orchestration technologies while ensuring vendor neutrality.

• Collaborate with portfolio company CTOs and engineering leaders to build sustainable internal capabilities and operational frameworks.

• Empower Vista teams and portfolio company engineers to utilize the Agentic Engineering Factory framework.

• Define technical standards and acceptance criteria for external system integrators and delivery partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in production software engineering, including roles such as Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, or similar positions.

• Proven architecture ownership across multiple engineering teams or business units, with a history of establishing technical standards at an enterprise scale.

• Demonstrated success in leading multi-quarter technical implementations and delivering production systems within intricate organizations.

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with frontier AI development tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar technologies in production settings.

• Experience in constructing production agentic systems, incorporating orchestration, tool usage, memory, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop design principles.

• Extensive experience with brownfield enterprise environments, including legacy codebases, monoliths, multi-repository contexts, and complex compliance mandates.

• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including CI/CD, containerization, observability, and security measures.

• Capacity to develop reusable platforms, frameworks, standards, or internal products that are adopted beyond your immediate team.

• Proficient communication skills for engaging with both highly technical audiences and senior executives.

• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.

• Preferred experience includes developer productivity measurement, working with system integrators, consulting, private equity operating environments, or large-scale organizational transformations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonus

• Comprehensive benefits package