Senior Platform Architect - Enterprise AI Agent

ByteDance ByteDance · Big Tech · San Jose, CA · R&D

This role focuses on architecting and leading the development of enterprise AI agent platforms, including AI harness, agent orchestration, RAG-based knowledge bases, and related AI technologies, to drive adoption across the organization. It requires strong technical architecture expertise, hands-on understanding of AI platforms, and product management capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the technical architecture and roadmap for enterprise AI agent platforms, including AI harness, agent orchestration, tool integration, workflow automation, memory, evaluation, observability, and governance capabilities.
  2. Partner with product, engineering, data, security, and business teams to identify high-value AI use cases and guide them from concept to production.
  3. Establish architecture principles, design patterns, best practices, and governance standards for enterprise AI agent and RAG-based application development.
  4. Provide technical leadership on AI reliability, scalability, observability, cost optimization, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
  5. Apply product management thinking to define platform vision, user journeys, feature priorities, adoption metrics, rollout plans, and feedback loops.

Skills

Required

  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience working with two or more of the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, networking systems, developing large software systems
  • 5+ years software development experience preferably with Golang or Python
  • Experience driving enterprise AI adoption across multiple business units or internal product teams
  • Prior experience combining architect-level technical ownership with product management responsibilities
  • Strong understanding of AI system tradeoffs, including cost, latency, accuracy, reliability, safety, and user experience

Nice to have

  • Experience building or architecting enterprise AI agent platforms, AI harness platforms, RAG-based knowledge bases, model gateways, evaluation platforms, or internal AI developer platforms
  • Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, including agent frameworks, vector databases, embedding models, reranking models, model routing, evaluation tooling, and AI governance
  • Experience with enterprise knowledge management systems, document intelligence, semantic search, taxonomy design, or knowledge quality evaluation
  • Experience with security, compliance, data privacy, access control, auditability, and responsible AI practices in enterprise AI systems
  • Publications, patents, open-source contributions, or recognized technical leadership in AI, platform architecture, or enterprise software are a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise AI adoption
  • architect-level technical ownership
  • product management responsibilities
  • AI system tradeoffs

Other signals

  • design and development of enterprise AI agent capabilities
  • AI harness platforms
  • RAG-based knowledge base systems
  • emerging AI technologies
  • enterprise AI adoption