<b>Job Type:</b> FTE<br><b>Level:</b> Mid-Level<br><b>Department:</b> AI Engineering<br><b>Location:</b> Remote (US or Canada)<br><b>Rate:</b> $140,000-$190,000 USD (rates vary in Canada)<br><br><b>Position Overview</b><br><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/cyclotron">Cyclotron</a>'s AI Engineering team is hiring an AI Architect to help design and deliver production AI systems for our enterprise clients. This is a hands-on, client-facing architect role. You will own the architecture on your engagements, contribute to delivery leadership, and grow into the full executive conversation alongside senior architects. Our practice is anchored in the Microsoft stack and actively extending across the OpenAI and Anthropic platforms, so we expect you to be fluent across all three and pragmatic about which one is right for a given problem. More than the usual architect role, we are looking for someone visibly, obviously engaged with this space: you have been building real agentic solutions, you ship with AI coding tools, and you have informed opinions on how to architect agentic solutions. You will work directly with senior architects on real engagements, with explicit room to grow the consulting craft (scoping, executive communication, escalation) alongside the technical depth. We invest in your certifications and time for hands-on exploration of new tools and patterns. <br><br><b>Responsibilities </b><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;">Own the architecture on AI engagements: discovery, design, delivery oversight, and knowledge transfer. You are the architect on your projects, working alongside a delivery lead and engineering team. </li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;">Serve as a credible technical voice with client stakeholders, including directors, managers, and senior engineers. Run workshops and design reviews with calm and clarity. </li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;">Architect agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and AI-augmented workflows across the Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic ecosystems (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, AI Search, Copilot Studio, the OpenAI platform including Responses API and Agents SDK, and the Anthropic platform including Claude API, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, and skills), choosing and composing them based on client fit, not vendor loyalty. </li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;">Contribute to the reference architectures, skills, prompts, and MCP servers the team reuses across clients. </li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;">Help build out our growing OpenAI and Anthropic practices alongside our Microsoft work through enablement content, reference implementations, and demos. </li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-bottom:11px;">Pair with senior architects and engineers on the hard parts. Review designs, debug production issues, sharpen eval