AI Solutions Architect (Manhattan)

C5i is a pure-play AI & Analytics provider that combines the power of human perspective with AI technology to deliver trustworthy intelligence. The company drives value through a comprehensive solution set, integrating multifunctional teams that have technical and business domain expertise with a robust suite of products, solutions, and accelerators tailored for various horizontal and industry-specific use cases. At the core, C5i’s focus is to deliver business impact at speed and scale by driving adoption of AI-assisted decision-making.

C5i caters to some of the world’s largest enterprises, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company’s clients span Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT), Pharma & Lifesciences, CPG, Retail, Banking, and other sectors. C5i has been recognized by leading industry analysts like Gartner and Forrester for its Analytics and AI capabilities and proprietary AI-based platforms.

Global offices

United States | Canada | United Kingdom | United Arab of Emirates | India

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. GenAI & Agentic Solution Architecture

• These tasks reflect the core responsibility of the role in designing enterprise-grade AI solutions.
• Designs and builds GenAI applications, AI agents, agentic workflows, and multi-agent solutions.
• Architects solutions using LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, and tool/function calling.
• Leverages Databricks AI capabilities, including AI Functions, AI Search/Vector Search, Model Serving, and MLflow.

2. Unstructured Data & Document Intelligence

• These tasks support the processing of documents and unstructured content.
• Designs pipelines for PDF/document extraction, OCR, image processing, classification, and summarization.
• Develops in Python and integrates AI solutions with enterprise systems through APIs, using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent.

3. AI Quality, Safety & Observability

• These tasks ensure AI solutions are accurate, safe, and reliable in production.
• Defines AI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and hallucination testing.
• Designs human-in-the-loop workflows and implements AI observability.

4. Partner Review & Technical Governance

• These tasks ensure partner and vendor AI work meets enterprise standards.
• Reviews partner AI solution designs, agent workflows, and code quality.
• Assesses and guides performance and cost optimization of AI solutions.

5. Production Delivery & Collaboration

• These tasks reflect delivery and collaboration with client and internal teams.
• Leads production deployment of enterprise AI applications using AI-assisted/spec-driven development practices.
• Works with client stakeholders, including on-site at the client office in Long Island City, NY 1–2 days a week.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall experience, including 2+ years of hands-on GenAI/LLM development
• Strong experience building GenAI applications, AI agents, agentic workflows and multi-agent solutions
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering and tool/function calling
• Experience with unstructured data processing, including PDF/document extraction, OCR, image processing, classification and summarization
• Strong Python development skills, API integration and experience with AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph or equivalent
• Familiarity with Databricks AI capabilities, including AI Functions, AI Search/Vector Search, Model Serving and MLflow
• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, hallucination testing, human-in-the-loop workflows and AI observability
• Ability to review partner AI solution designs, agent workflows, code quality, performance and cost optimization
• Experience with AI-assisted/spec-driven development and production deployment of enterprise AI applications

C5i is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, etc. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please keep us informed about the same at the hiring stages for us to factor necessary accommodations.