AI Architect (Applied AI Engineer)

About this role

AI Architect (Applied AI Engineer)

Location: Remote

Status: Full-Time

At Misfits & Machines, the innovation sister company of Marketing Architects, we’re not just exploring what AI can create—we’re building transformative technologies that help marketers machine remarkable growth in the age of AI. Our team is obsessed with reimagining the marketing value chain through automation, machine learning, and scalable innovation. If you believe the future belongs to bold ideas executed with precision and humanity, we’d love to meet you.

ROLE OVERVIEW

As an AI Architect, you’ll report to the Head AI Architect and work hands-on with our creative, product, and engineering teams to design and build the AI systems behind our generative video platform. This is a hands-on architecture role at the frontier of applied AI: you’ll sit with stakeholders, translate their ideas into agentic systems in real time, and build and ship them yourself. You’ll also own how we measure and improve those systems, keeping a close read on how everything performs in production.

What you'll do:

- Design and build agentic systems
: Create and maintain the AI agent workflows and orchestration pipelines that power the platform, using Mastra, n8n, or the right tool for the job.
- Turn ideas into architecture, live
: Sit in working sessions with creative and product stakeholders, gather requirements on the fly, and translate them into working AI systems.
- Craft and refine the intelligence
: Write, test, and iteratively improve prompts and multi-step systems, creative generators, evaluation/judging panels, and guardrail checks.
- Own observability and evals
: Manage prompts and traces in Weave (or a comparable tool), craft and run evals, and meet with product stakeholders to understand how prompts are performing.
- Make the architecture calls
: Decide when to use agents vs. workflows, where logic should live, and how to keep systems flexible as the pr...