AI Principal Architect

About the role

AI Principal Architect at Mastercard. Own the architecture and technical roadmap for the Operational Intelligence Gen AI platform.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for the Operational Intelligence Gen AI platform
• Architect the enterprise tool-calling layer, setting standards for how internal services, data platforms
• Design self-correcting agent patterns: tool critics and verifiers that check tool selection, arguments, and results
• Architect agent memory and state for long-running, multi-step sessions, including short- and long-term memory (e.g., Mem0, Zep, LangGraph memory), session persistence
• Define retrieval architecture for grounded reasoning, including Self-RAG, Corrective RAG (CRAG), adaptive retrieval, and Graph-RAG, built on vector databases (e.g.

What you need

• Machine learning
• SQL
• Python
• AWS
• LLMs
• MLOps
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• Azure
• GCP
• Databricks
• Prototyping
• CI/CD
• Data privacy