Senior AI Engineer, Architect

PepsiCo is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to define and drive the engineering of an enterprise-grade orchestration capability. This role will focus on the technical direction and delivery of core capabilities related to agent workflow development, human-agent collaboration, and ensuring compliance and security standards are met.

Responsibilities:

• Define reference architecture, design standards, and engineering guardrails for agent workflow orchestration, human collaboration, and identity/governance capabilities
• Own sequencing of releases, deprecation strategy, and compatibility standards to enable safe evolution with minimal disruption
• Establish and enforce non-human identity patterns, consent propagation mechanisms, RBAC/ABAC policy models, and least-privilege access across agent workflows
• Ensure end-to-end auditability for agent actions, prompt/tool changes, model switches, handoffs/messages, approvals, and access decisions; define evidence requirements for compliance
• Define and enforce data classification, PII redaction, retention/purge, and policy-based routing to compliant models/providers
• Define and drive implementation of deterministic handoff patterns (assign/escalate/co-pilot/co-author), resilient messaging, and stateful long-running workflows with timers and compensation/rollback
• Ensure seamless integration into enterprise systems (CRM/ITSM/custom apps) via gateways and standardized interfaces
• Define promotion gates and automated CI/CD standards including versioning, testing, security scans, approvals, and drift detection
• Drive safe migration practices between model providers/versions with minimal downtime and proven rollback; define operational playbooks
• Own SLIs/SLOs and operational posture: observability standards (metrics/logs/traces), incident and credential compromise runbooks, and release readiness reviews
• Deliver enablement: reference implementations, developer playbooks, training for platform ops and application teams; mentor senior and junior engineers