Principal AI Architect

Job description

Draup is a Series A-funded agentic AI company building the intelligence layer for how global enterprises make workforce and go-to-market decisions. We work with 250+ enterprise clients — including 5 of the Fortune 10 — processing 1B+ job descriptions, 850M+ professional profiles, and signals from 100+ labor databases.We are now building our Silicon Valley engineering team — a small, senior group focused on next-generation AI research and product.What you'll do• Define and own the architectural vision for next-generation AI systems: novel agent architectures, reasoning systems, and proprietary model development.• Prototype and evaluate breakthrough AI capabilities — predictive modeling, autonomous signal synthesis, multi-modal intelligence — that create defensible IP.• Set the technical foundations: data architecture, model serving, agent orchestration, and inference infrastructure for a multi-year product horizon.• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI paradigms (multi-agent reasoning, RLHF, retrieval-augmented fine-tuning) before they are mainstream.• Establish engineering standards, architecture review processes, and IP documentation practices for the team.What we require• BS/MS/PhD in...