Senior Cloud Architect (AI)

Location: Lviv, Ukraine

Company

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs and ships AI co-workers and enterprise systems for clients across multiple industries.

What you will do

• Contribute to architectural design across cloud, data, and AI/ML systems, owning meaningful components end to end.
• Build and integrate cloud-native microservices, serverless, containerized, and event-driven workloads.
• Implement infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Design data architectures covering pipelines, warehouses, modeling, and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Support AI/ML system design, including model serving, MLOps pipelines, and LLM-based integrations.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, AI, and product teams; document architecture, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on exposure to architectural decisions.
• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python and at least one additional modern-stack language such as Java, Scala, or TypeScript.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, including microservices, serverless, containers, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, relational and NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and ETL/ELT concepts.
• Familiarity with AI/ML system design, model deployment, MLOps, LLM integration, cloud networking, security, identity, and access management.
• Understanding of GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, observability fundamentals, and day-to-day use of AI tools such as Claude and Cursor.

Culture & Benefits

• 20 days of paid vacation and 15 days of unpaid vacation.
• Official public holidays off and 5 paid sick days without a doctor's certificate.
• Medical insurance.
• Military draft deferment and reservation support.
• Cooperation under a gig-contract.