Fivetran
Sr. Principal AI Systems Architect
$252K–$315K
Oakland, California, United States, AMER · Principal · Full-time · Posted Mar 3, 2026
About the job
Architects and builds a dependable, extensible AI analyst system that supports real analytical workflows and improves through evaluation.
What you'll do
- Define architecture for prompts, tools, metadata, context, evaluation, and runtime safety; build reusable interfaces for new agent capabilities.
- Design retrieval and context strategies, and establish benchmarks and review processes to measure and improve model behavior.
- Partner across product, engineering, and analyst domains to deliver reliable AI-assisted workflows with strong correctness, transparency, and failure handling.
What they ask for
- Deep experience building AI-enabled product systems.
- Strong software architecture skills, especially APIs, contracts, orchestration, and system boundaries.
- Practical understanding of LLM prompting, tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, and evaluation methods.
- Ability to work across backend engineering, product constraints, and user workflow design.
Pay
$251,835 — $314,794 USD (target new-hire compensation; base salary or total pay not specified)
AI focus
Build and architect an AI analyst system using LLMs, tools, retrieval, context and prompt orchestration, evaluation, and runtime safety.
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