[Remote] AI Architect – AI SDLC & Agentic Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Canvendor is seeking an AI Architect to lead the design and implementation of an AI-driven Software Development Life Cycle (AI SDLC). The role focuses on AI agents, specification-driven development, reverse and forward engineering, automated traceability, governance, security, and integration of agentic development platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement an end-to-end AI SDLC framework from requirements through development, testing, validation, and deployment
• Build AI-driven reverse engineering processes to analyze existing applications, code, database, APIs, UI, and business rules and convert them into structured specifications
• Establish Specification-Driven Development (SDD) where approvedrequirements/specifications drive architecture, code, test cases, and documentation
• Design AI agent workflows for architecture, coding, SQL/data model, API, UI, testing, code review, and validation
• Implement AI-assisted forward engineering from BRD/FRD/specifications to production-ready application components
• Establish automated specification-to-code, specification-to-test, and traceability/validation mechanisms
• Define governance, security, quality gates, and human-in-the-loop controls for AI-generated artifacts
• Evaluate and integrate tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI, OpenAI, or similar agentic development platforms

Skills

• Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, AI Agents / Agentic AI
• AI-assisted software engineering and SDLC automation
• Reverse & forward engineering
• Specification-Driven Development
• Enterprise application architecture
• .NET/Java, Angular/React, APIs, SQL, Python, Azure/Cloud
• CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing
• Prompt/context engineering and LLM evaluation
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and enterprise security
• Experience building an AI SDLC / Agentic Engineering framework from PoC to enterprise adoption
• Experience with legacy modernization and AI-based

Company Overview

Canvendor is an IT firm that offers analytics, supply chain, business consulting and application development services to various industries. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.canvendor.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Canvendor has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 3 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.