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title: 'AI Engineer / AI Architect at Robots and Pencils'
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# AI Engineer / AI Architect at Robots and Pencils

- **Company:** Robots and Pencils
- **Location:** Bogota, Colombia
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/robotsandpencils/jobs/5414164008

## Job description

APPLICATIONS FROM OUTSIDE COLOMBIA WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE Robots & Pencils is seeking an AI Engineer / AI Architect to design, build, and scale production-grade AI systems that deliver measurable business value.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will define system architectures, lead implementation of scalable AI platforms, and guide teams through the full lifecycle of AI development, from experimentation and model iteration to secure, observable production deployment.

As a Level 4 leader, you are expected to own complex AI systems end-to-end, influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and make principled architectural tradeoffs under real-world constraints.

## Key Responsibilities

AI Architecture & Technical Strategy

- Define AI system architecture aligned to business objectives and long-term scalability
- Translate ambiguous AI opportunities into structured technical approaches
- Design modular, extensible AI platforms supporting experimentation and production workloads
- Establish architecture decision records (ADRs) and technical documentation standards

AI System Design & Implementation

- Lead design and implementation of ML systems, model services, and inference pipelines
- Build scalable training, evaluation, and deployment workflows
- Architect data ingestion, feature engineering, and model serving strategies
- Ensure reliability, observability, and performance optimization of AI systems

AI Platform & Infrastructure

- Design and implement end-to-end AI pipelines and agentic orchestration frameworks.
- Establish LLMOps best practices including CI/CD, prompt versioning, and real-time model observability.
- Optimize distributed inference systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) performance.
- Ensure AI infrastructure aligns with security, compliance, and GPU/token cost-efficiency standards.

Research-to-Production Acceleration

- Bridge research and engineering by operationalizing prototypes into production-ready systems
- Define evaluation metrics, validation processes, and rollout strategies
- Improve iteration velocity through tooling and automation

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

- Mentor junior and mid-level AI engineers
- Lead code reviews and enforce engineering standards
- Guide teams in making informed tradeoffs across performance, scalability, cost, and complexity
- Contribute to shared AI best practices and internal accelerators

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders to shape AI roadmaps
- Communicate technical strategy and system tradeoffs clearly to non-technical audiences
- Align AI initiatives with business value and measurable outcomes

Required Skills & Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or applied machine learning
- Proven experience designing and deploying production AI systems
- Strong software engineering background (Python or similar)
- Experience with distributed systems and scalable data architectures
- Deep understanding of MLOps, model lifecycle management, and AI infrastructure
- Experience building and maintaining ML pipelines and automated deployment workflows
- Strong problem-solving skills and architectural judgment
- Demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience
- Excellent communication skills for technical and executive stakeholders

## Nice to Have

- Experience with generative AI, LLM systems, or retrieval-augmented architectures
- Exposure to multi-agent or agentic AI systems
- Experience with cloud-based AI platforms and infrastructure-as-code
- Background in consulting or professional services environments
- Experience designing AI systems in regulated or security-sensitive domains
- Hands-on AWS experience supporting cloud-native or AI/ML production systems.
- AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level) or equivalent practical AWS expertise.

Personal Competencies

- Architectural Thinking – Designs systems that scale and evolve
- Technical Ownership – Drives AI initiatives from concept to production
- Engineering Rigor – Prioritizes reliability, observability, and maintainability
- Mentorship – Elevates team capability through guidance and example
- Execution Focus – Delivers production-ready systems, not just prototypes
- Comfort in Ambiguity – Translates unclear AI challenges into structured solutions

Why Join Robots & Pencils?

At Robots & Pencils, we build intelligent systems for real-world environments, blending creativity, engineering excellence, and applied AI to help organizations work smarter. Our teams partner directly with leading North American organizations to design and deliver production-ready digital and AI solutions that create measurable impact.

As an AI Engineer, you will build production AI systems alongside experienced architects and senior engineers, strengthening your foundation in machine learning, scalable system design, and modern cloud-native delivery. You’ll collaborate closely with US-based clients, gaining hands-on exposure to complex problem-solving while contributing to meaningful, real-world outcomes.

By joining Robots & Pencils, you also benefit from our Advanced AWS Partnership and participation in the highly exclusive AWS Patterns Partnership, a distinction held by only 11 companies worldwide out of more than 190,000 AWS partners. This provides access to specialized training, early access to emerging cloud capabilities, and advanced engineering resources that support accelerated professional growth.

This is a role for builders who want to sharpen their craft, grow quickly, and deliver impactful AI systems within an elite global engineering ecosystem.

## About Robots and Pencils

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Robots & Pencils is an Applied AI Engineering Partner that builds generative and agentic AI systems for enterprise clients, taking AI from pilot to production quickly.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Organic Growth)
- **Headquarters**: Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Len Pagon (CEO), Nathan Carmon

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting, Applied AI Engineering, Cloud-Native Development
- **Target customers**: Enterprise clients in Financial Services, Healthcare, Education, Energy, Retail & Consumer Goods, High Tech, and Transportation
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We build smart systems for a human world" — blending the logic of machines with the creativity of humans to help organizations modernize platforms, design cloud-native applications, and unlock the real-world value of AI.

## Products & Services
- **Applied AI Engineering**: Building generative and agentic AI systems on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with memory, observability, and security built in from the start. Focused on taking AI from pilot to production quickly.
- **Cloud-Native AWS Modernization**: Re-architecting AWS environments from EC2/ECS to serverless-native infrastructure. Migrating legacy systems to cloud-native AWS, beyond lift-and-shift.
- **The Sharpening Sprint™**: A structured engagement to surface the strongest AI use cases for a client and deliver a sequenced build plan.
- **UX/UI Design & Product Strategy**: A creative team of product owners, researchers, UX designers, and visual designers who craft seamless experiences.
- **Legacy Platform Modernization**: Refactoring aging platforms and designing cloud-native applications across industries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$21.5M** (estimated) [ca.linkedin.com](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: AWS (Advanced Tier Services Partner and Inaugural AWS Pattern Partner)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~115 employees (+35.1% YoY, +39 people) [ca.linkedin.com](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils); 23,753 LinkedIn followers (+55.2% yearly growth); 77M+ users reached worldwide across launched apps; 25 patents & published works; 5 apps hit #1 in the App Store

## Competitive Advantages
- **Applied AI Engineering Focus**: Specializes exclusively in taking generative and agentic AI from pilot to live, fast — a nimble, high-velocity alternative to traditional global systems integrators.
- **AWS Pattern Partner**: One of only 11 inaugural AWS Pattern Partners selected from the AWS Partner Network, signaling deep technical partnership and trust.
- **Senior-Led Teams**: Operates through small, senior teams (15+ years average experience per team member) rather than massive consulting organizations, ensuring high-quality delivery.
- **Human-Centered Design**: Blends elite engineering talent with world-class UX design, differentiating from pure technical consultancies.
- **Proven Track Record**: 77M+ users reached worldwide, 25 patents & published works, and multiple #1 App Store launches.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI on AWS**: Building agentic systems on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with memory, observability, and security built in from the start.
- **Production-Ready AI**: Focused on taking AI from pilot to production in weeks, not months, with a strong emphasis on compliance and regulatory environments (Financial Services, Healthcare).
- **Industry Expansion**: Serving Financial Services, Health Tech, Education, Energy, Retail & Consumer Goods, and High Tech — industries where AI agents create exponential value.
- **Global Delivery Network**: Operating delivery centers across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America to serve enterprise clients worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "wicked smart, wildly curious, ready to build" — a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact. The company emphasizes "always learning" and invests in personal and professional growth.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid and remote-friendly. "Whether you are co-located in one of our offices or remote first, we prioritize how teams are set up to focus in on collaboration for successful delivery." [robotsandpencils.com](https://robotsandpencils.com/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Salary continuation and protected leave for parents (birth, spouse, and adoptive); health & wellness benefits; flexible hours; paid time off (vacation, sick, personal leave, flexible holidays).
- **Engineering Culture**: Described as a team of "tech wizards creating digital magic" — frontend, backend, mobile, and full-stack developers working on cutting-edge AI and cloud-native projects. The hiring process includes a pre-screen assessment, skills assessment, and deep dive interview to evaluate culture addition, communication, and technical fit.
- **Global Team**: Delivery centers in the U.S., Canada, Ukraine, Colombia, and the Philippines, offering a diverse, international work environment.

## Sources
1. [robotsandpencils.com](https://robotsandpencils.com/)
2. [robotsandpencils.com/about](https://robotsandpencils.com/about/)
3. [robotsandpencils.com/careers](https://robotsandpencils.com/careers/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/robotsandpencils](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/robotsandpencils)
5. [ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils)

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