Robots & Pencils is seeking a seasoned AWS AI Solutions Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex, enterprise-grade generative and agentic AI systems built on Amazon Web Services. You will architect scalable, secure, and production-ready AI platforms leveraging Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, AWS AgentCore Gateway, Nova Forge, Nova 2 Sonic, and related AWS AI/ML services. 
 
As an AWS AI Solutions Architect, you will serve as a strategic technical advisor—translating ambiguity into structured AWS-native architectures, validating designs through hands-on prototyping, and ensuring every solution aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Framework (including ML Lens) while delivering measurable business value. 

Key Responsibilities 

Client Engagement & AWS Solutions Architecture 

• Serve as the primary AWS AI architecture partner for strategic clients, driving generative and agentic AI system design from discovery through production. 

• Lead architecture design using Amazon Bedrock (including foundation models and custom models), Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, and AWS AgentCore Gateway. 

• Design advanced RAG, Agentic RAG, and multi-agent orchestration architectures leveraging AWS-native services such as Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora (pgvector), and OpenSearch. 

• Produce AWS reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), and implementation roadmaps aligned to business objectives. 

• Validate feasibility through hands-on prototyping in Python using Bedrock SDKs, SageMaker, and serverless services. 

• Ensure architectures follow AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, VPC, PrivateLink) and cost optimization principles. 

Outcome Ownership & Business Impact 

• Own architectural integrity from concept through production deployment on AWS. 

• Align solutions with AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. 

• Guide clients through tradeoff decisions across model selection (Bedrock FMs vs custom SageMaker models), latency, cost, governance, and compliance. 
  Accelerate time-to-value through reusable AWS accelerators, Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/Terraform/CDK), and CI/CD automation. 

• Continuously evaluate emerging AWS AI capabilities (Nova Forge, Nova 2 Sonic, Bedrock updates, and new AgentCore capabilities). 

Engineering Leadership & Delivery Excellence 

• • Provide architectural oversight to Forward Deployed Engineers and AWS delivery teams. 

• Establish best practices for MLOps on AWS including model lifecycle management, monitoring, and observability using SageMaker, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config. 

• Define governance, responsible AI guardrails, Bedrock Guardrails configuration, and security controls for enterprise environments. 

• Mentor engineers on AWS AI service integration, distributed systems design, and secure multi-account strategies. 

• Make principled tradeoffs under constraints related to privacy, compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR), cost, and operational complexity. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Partner with internal product, engineering, research, and customer success teams to evolve AWS-based AI offerings. 

• Contribute AWS reference architectures and reusable infrastructure modules to internal accelerators. 

• Support pre-sales engagements including architecture workshops, AWS migration strategy, and solution scoping. 

• Collaborate across distributed teams and client stakeholders across North America. 

Required Skills & Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 7–10+ years of experience in software engineering or cloud architecture with deep AWS ownership. 
  • Deep expertise in Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, AgentCore Gateway, and related AWS AI services. 
  • Strong familiarity with SageMaker (training, deployment, pipelines), deep learning fundamentals, and model fine-tuning strategies. 
  • Experience architecting RAG, multi-agent, and orchestration systems using AWS-native services. 
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and serverless patterns. 
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform). 
  • Hands-on development capability in Python and AWS SDKs. 
  • Experience implementing observability and monitoring strategies in AWS environments. 
  • Proven success leading enterprise-scale AWS transformations. 
  • Exceptional communication skills for both technical and executive audiences. 
  • AWS Professional Certifications highly preferred (AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional). 

Nice to Have 

• AWS Specialty certifications (Machine Learning – Specialty, Security – Specialty).
  • Experience with advanced agentic reasoning patterns (ReAct,CoT, Tree-of-Thoughts) implemented on Bedrock. 
  • Experience building secure multi-account AWS organizations using Control Tower. 
  • Exposure to data engineering services such as Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation. 
  • Consulting or professional services background. 

Personal Competencies 

• Accountability – Owns AWS architectural direction and client outcomes with rigor.
  • Adaptability – Rapidly adopts new AWS AI releases and evolving generative AI capabilities.
  • Collaboration – Builds trust across engineering and executive stakeholders. 
  • Execution-Focused – Balances innovation with production-ready AWS delivery. 
  • Innovation-Minded – Experiments responsibly with emerging AWS AI services. 
  • Craftsmanship – Designs secure, scalable, and well-documented AWS systems. 
  • Leadership with Courage – Drives architectural alignment in complex environments. 
  • Comfort in Ambiguity – Translates unclear AI requirements into AWS-native solution architectures. 

Why Join Robots & Pencils? 

We build smart systems for a human world — blending creativity, engineering, and AWS-powered AI to help organizations reimagine how they work. As an AWS AI Solutions Architect, you will shape enterprise-scale generative and agentic AI platforms using the most advanced AWS services available. You will define architectures that deliver measurable business value, mentor teams, and directly influence the evolution of our AWS AI practice. 

Remote (US)

ABOUT PERFORMLINE

PerformLine is a leading provider of multi-channel marketing compliance technology for enterprises in highly regulated industries. The company's platform supports pre-publication review of marketing assets and post-publication monitoring across marketing channels including web, social, and email—helping organizations manage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and protect their brands at scale. PerformLine is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, and serves clients across financial services and other regulated markets.

Come as you are. We are an equal opportunity workplace celebrating diversity and committed to creating an inclusive and equitable experience for all.

MISSION

Our mission is to empower compliance leaders with the technology and knowledge to ensure their organization and partners provide transparent and accurate information to consumers across any channel.

TL;DR

Our Tech Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is excited to build what is next. You'll help us bring AI powered features to life on AWS, expanding what our platform can do for customers and improving how our systems run every day! Think work similar to the recent AWS Blog Post about integrating Bedrock into real products.

On our team, you'll take on projects that matter, with visibility across the company and the freedom to shape solutions. You will influence how we build, strengthen our engineering practices, and contribute to a positive team culture. At PerformLine you can expect to own your work, solve meaningful problems, and push innovation forward at a growing company.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Be the Expert 

• Build cloud native services on AWS using the right mix of serverless, containerized, and event driven patterns
• Work across Go or Python depending on what best serves the platform and the problem
• Design and implement small LLM powered features using AWS Bedrock in a safe, controlled, user initiated manner
• Strengthen reliability and observability across distributed systems through logging, metrics, tracing, and actionable dashboards
• Apply modern AWS service patterns to improve scale, reduce cost, and accelerate development
• Contribute to internal best practices for integrating deterministic logic with AI assisted workflows

Be a Force Multiplier 

• Help the team adopt efficient cloud first patterns and improve the way we build and operate services on AWS
• Make the whole team better by advocating for best practices, gently reminding people of why the processes we have exist, and helping less experienced engineers find ways to ‘level up’
• Embrace having a large impact on team morale, culture, feedback, and even recruiting
• Represent your engineering organization outside of the company

WHO YOU ARE

• Comfortable working in Go or Python without being anchored to a specific language
• Quick to learn new AWS services, tools, or frameworks and apply them productively
• Values clarity in distributed system design and thrives in environments where requirements evolve
• Understands how to integrate AI capabilities into existing systems without compromising reliability
• Balances experimentation with discipline and recognizes when simple solutions are better than clever ones
• Approaches cloud architecture with a practical view of cost, performance, and security
• Sees ambiguity as an opportunity to drive alignment and move work forward
• Empathetic and collaborates with peers & stakeholders to deliver
• Never operates with an adversarial attitude
• Seeks out coaching and takes critical feedback well

WHAT YOU BRING

• Strong hands on experience building backend systems on AWS using services such as Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, and IAM
• Experience writing production software in Go or Python and the ability to move between both
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock or other LLM platforms and how to integrate model calls into backend services
• Experience instrumenting applications with observability tooling for metrics, logs, and traces
• Practical knowledge of event driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and distributed debugging
• Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows, deployment patterns, and version control using GitHub
• Experience designing and evolving REST based APIs in production environments

WHAT WE OFFER

• Estimated base salary range $120,000 - 170,000 plus annual discretionary bonus.
  • Exact compensation for this role depends on a variety of factors, including experience, skills, internal equity, market data, and location.
• To view our benefits package, visit the PerformLine Careers page!

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Who We Are

Cross River builds the infrastructure behind the world’s most innovative financial products. Our technology and capital solutions power payments, cards, lending, and digital asset capabilities that move money safely, instantly, and inclusively — trusted by leading fintechs, enterprises, and disruptors across the globe.

Our mission is simple: to build the financial infrastructure that expands access and opportunity for all. Guided by a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and purpose, Cross River has been named one of American Banker’s Best Places to Work in Fintech year after year. Whether you’re designing code, solving regulatory puzzles, or developing strategy, you’ll join a team where innovation and integrity drive everything we do — and where your work helps shape the future of finance.

Responsibilities:

• Architect & Maintain: Lead the design, architecture, and enhancement of our LLM-based platform. You will be responsible for high-level technical decisions regarding the python or Node.js and React ecosystem.
• Technical Strategy & Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business vision into scalable technical requirements. Lead cross-functional alignment between engineering teams.
• System Performance: Architect applications for extreme speed and reliability. Own the strategies for scaling to handle high traffic and complex real-time data processing.
• Security Leadership: Design and oversee robust authentication and authorization frameworks (Identity Server, OAuth2, OpenID Connect). Ensure the platform meets enterprise-grade security standards for data protection.
• Engineering Excellence: Set the standard for clean, maintainable, and testable code. Lead rigorous code reviews and establish "best practice" guidelines for the entire engineering team.
• Mentorship & Team Growth: Actively mentor junior and mid-level developers. Drive a culture of technical growth, peer learning, and collaborative problem-solving.
• AI Innovation: Stay at the bleeding edge of AI/LLM trends. Beyond application, you will evaluate and integrate emerging tools to enhance product intelligence.
• Operational Reliability: Lead the troubleshooting of complex, systemic issues across the stack. Implement proactive monitoring to ensure high availability.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 4+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of leading complex full-stack projects.
• Front-End Leadership: Solid knowledge of React, modern JavaScript (ES6+), and state management patterns at scale.
• Backend & Architecture: Python or Node.js, Express.js, and designing scalable Microservices architectures.
• Database Mastery: Advanced experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including performance tuning and schema design for high-load environments.
• AWS Infrastructure: Hands-on experience architecting on AWS (DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway). Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK) is a plus.
• Process Excellence: Deep understanding of TDD, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/Scrum leadership.
• Advanced Problem Solving: Ability to debug problems across distributed systems and optimize bottlenecks in real-time data flows.
• Soft Skills: Great communicator with the ability to influence technical direction and manage stakeholder expectations.
• LLM/AI experience: Professional experience or deep technical projects involving Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, or RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) workflows.

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Salary Range: $160,000.00 - $200,000.00