Applied AI Architect Job Northern Kentucky USA,Software Development

Role Who you are

Fractional & Independent Consulting Appetite:
You excel in zero-to-one, time-bounded engagements where success is measured by rapid execution, proving a commercial business case, and leaving behind repeatable frameworks
Executive Commercial Presence:
Exceptional poise, clarity, and the ability to confidently navigate live pushback from senior enterprise executives
Hunter Instinct in Ambiguity:
You create momentum without a preset playbook, comfortable taking small, calculated bets to earn buy-in from scratch
Enterprise AI Judgment:
You easily distinguish valuable business use cases from "AI theater," bringing deep understanding of both technical realities and commercial tradeoffs
Deep Technical Range: 5+ years of hands-on experience across Linux, Docker, networking, major clouds, and enterprise SSO/OAuth—with enough depth to earn immediate credibility with a customer's senior engineers
Production-Minded LLM

Experience:

Hands-on experience building or deploying production systems powered by LLMs or AI agents beyond weekend prototypes
Mentorship Instinct: A drive to teach client teams, empower internal champions, and document scalable runbooks so adoption continues long after your engagement ends

What the job involves

Snap Logic is building the agentic layer that enterprises actually deploy
Jean-Paul, our enterprise AI agent platform, is live inside Slack, Teams, and email at some of the most demanding IT organizations in the world
We are seeking a high-agency, entrepreneurial Applied AI Architect for a time-bounded fractional contract engagement
Your mandate is to take this new product to market, prove its value in high-stakes production environments, and build the business case for our next phase of scale and investment
You will sit at the tip of the spear - working the room with executive buyers, the terminal with customer engineering teams, and the stage in front of the market as this category is defined in real-time
Approaching the role with a hunter mindset in ambiguity, you will step into unstructured, high-stakes environments and leave with scalable architectures that customer leadership champions
This is a hands-on, high-impact contract role

Key Responsibilities

Lead Executive Engagements:
Command the room during discovery and scoping with VP and C-level stakeholders, translating technical capabilities into sharp business impact for CIO/CTO audiences
Deploy into Complex Environments:
Own the end-to-end technical rollout into customer VPCs, on-prem Docker hosts, and firewalled networks. Resolve the critical blockers (SSO, enterprise OAuth, egress policies) that typically derail pilots
Build the Context Layer:
Move beyond surface-level demos by engineering data connectivity (via Model Context Protocol / MCP) and context layers, ensuring the AI agent is genuinely usable, reliable, and trustworthy
Drive Footprint Expansion:
Identify adjacent business functions and high-value use cases, turning initial team beachheads into account expansion and undeniable ROI
Shape the GTM Narrative:
Represent Snap Logic's agentic AI point of view in briefings and competitive situations, codifying field wins into repeatable playbooks for the GTM team
Feed the Product Loop:
Partner directly with our core engineering team building on the Claude Agent SDK—bringing field realities, edge cases, and customer needs straight back into the product roadmap

Compensation & Work Arrangement