Senior AI-Native Architect

The future of software engineering is AI-native. Our team works to shape that future through pioneering research, practical engineering methods, and close collaboration with government, industry, and academia.​At the AI-Native Software Engineering Directorate, we focus on how today's engineering teams can quickly exploit emerging technologies and harness AI capabilities to create and evolve software quickly without losing fundamental software qualities.  To address this new world, we :study and guide industry and government teams’ use of AI in software engineeringdistill best practices and lessons from experiments and experience to shape AI-native software engineeringpilot and transition improvements with organizations and measure their successcreate novel agents and agentic workflows to support software engineeringapply AI to accelerate architecture-scale modernizationhelp organizations establish AI-native software engineering practicesguide organizations in evolving their software with architecture and AI-native approaches Our overarching goal is to create new workflows and tools that enable AI-paced delivery of software without loss of quality.  We're seeking candidates with a demonstrated track record who are motivated to shape AI-native software engineering. AI-Native ArchitectAs an AI-Native Architect, you will focus on helping organizations solve architecture-scale challenges with the assistance of AI.  Common challenges include modernizing legacy systems, rearchitecting systems to enable insertion of new technologies, and creating new architectures and reference architectures across different domains.  New challenges include creation and evolution of agentic workflows, both for business processes and software engineering activities.  You will help advance our AI-Native Software Engineering strategy by solving challenges such as:assessing customer system challenges and recommending technical solutionsreviewing existing systems against today's challenges and designing modernization strategiescreating novel architectures and reference architectures to address customer challengescoaching engineering teams in achieving architecture-scale changesarchitecting and prototyping systems and agentic workflowsidentifying opportunities to apply AI to diverse architecture challengessharing experiences, solutions, and practice improvements with the technical community through publications and presentations You will have the opportunity to work with world class software engineers, researchers, and data scientists working on national and global scale problems. Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesComprehensive knowledge of software architecture and software engineering fundamentalsBroad knowledge of architecture principles, practices, and toolsAbility to quickly learn new problem domains and technologiesA track record of architecting or rearchitecting systems at scaleA track record of aligning development acti...