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Distro

Worldwide talent sourcing, interviewing, payroll automation

AI Domain Architect

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNoida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Eight or more years of experience building production software, including time at staff, principal, or architect scope where other teams depended on work the candidate owned.
  • Practical experience designing ontologies, knowledge graphs, or canonical domain models that shipped in production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with large language model-based or agentic systems, including understanding their failure modes.
  • Experience with fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation, or model evaluation pipelines, and judgment about which approach to use.
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry services, including model deployment, agent development, and evaluation and safety tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure services, including compute, data, identity, and networking building blocks for AI workloads.
  • Ability to take a pattern from concept through working proof-of-concept to published standard.
  • A record of changing technical direction through influence rather than authority across team boundaries.
  • Clear writing, as ontology, patterns, and decision records are part of the role's outputs.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own the canonical ontology as a semantic layer spanning PrismHR platforms, anchored in the central PEO and HCM platforms, covering entities, relationships, business rules, and terminology for co-employment, payroll, benefits administration, workers’ compensation, onboarding, and compliance, in partnership with product teams that own each platform’s data model.
  • Ground reference architectures in the ontology so retrieval, reasoning, and generated output remain consistent with business and regulatory requirements.
  • Establish governance for ontology evolution as products, regulations, and customer needs change, and maintain the ontology as a living artifact with a defined review cadence.
  • Model business processes across PrismHR platforms, especially PEO and HCM, as agentic workflows with task decomposition, tool boundaries, decision points, escalation paths, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints mapped to risk-level requirements.
  • Define where agents may act autonomously and where they must defer, especially in payroll, money movement, and compliance-sensitive operations.
  • Ensure workflow models inherit safeguards including validated identity claims for tenant context, audit logging, and content safety.
  • Own the strategy for when to fine-tune, use retrieval, or rely on prompting, based on cost, accuracy, and maintenance trade-offs.
  • Define dataset curation standards for domain-specific training data, including labeling, provenance, and retention and residency data-handling constraints required by the compliance posture.
  • Build domain-specific evaluation harnesses to inform model selection and evaluation, measuring accuracy in PEO, HCM, and surrounding platform domains rather than relying on generic benchmarks.
  • Build and maintain a reusable library of AI intelligence patterns, including retrieval strategies, reasoning templates, agent scaffolds, and validation guards, for product teams to reuse.
  • Validate each pattern through a working proof-of-concept before publishing it as a standard, and document use cases, known failure modes, and evaluation criteria.
  • Turn implementation lessons, pattern gaps, and production findings from product-team engagements into updated patterns and standards.
  • Engage with product teams from design through go-live by reviewing designs, pairing on integration, and resolving pattern gaps, while product teams own delivery and operations.
  • Advise on use-case feasibility, risk, and fit against standards, and act as the escalation point for domain-AI design questions.
  • Contribute to team decisions on standards conformance and recommendations to the AI Domain Committee.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in PEO, HCM, payroll, benefits, or an adjacent regulated domain.
  • Working knowledge of ontology and knowledge-representation tooling, including OWL, RDF, SHACL, and property graphs, or semantic layer design.
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS handling sensitive personal data, including SOC 2 or ISO 27001 environments.
  • Familiarity with agent frameworks, particularly Microsoft Agent Framework, MCP, and tool-use orchestration.
  • Knowledge of Snowflake Cortex AI and how it fits alongside a broader AI platform.
  • Prior AI research experience and formal knowledge-engineering credentials are optional.

About the Company

Distro

Worldwide talent sourcing, interviewing, payroll automation

Distro is a platform that helps companies find and match with software talent from over 200 countries, enabling interviews, hiring, and automated payroll all in one system. It works by connecting employers with a global pool of vetted developers, coordinating interview scheduling and evaluations, and then handling employment paperwork and payroll through an integrated workflow. The company differentiates itself by offering truly global reach (access to talent across 200+ countries) along with end-to-end hiring and payroll automation in a single platform, rather than relying on separate staffing services, marketplaces, or fragmented tools. Its goal is to simplify hiring and paying international software developers, helping tech teams grow by accessing quality talent worldwide with a streamlined, automated process.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Lehi, UT
Founded
2021

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