Own Technical Standards. Set and enforce engineering standards, contracts, and integration patterns — including interoperability protocols such as MCP/A2A — for agentic solutions across digital apparel design tools, PLM systems, vendor management, procurement, compliance, logistics, etc. Set the engineering definition-of-done, establishing system quality through evaluation gates (LLM-as-judge, golden datasets) rather than subjective opinion

Architect Agent-Ready Data. Shape the data strategy for how structured and unstructured design and sourcing assets are ingested, embedded, structured, and exposed as reliable, reusable AI-ready data products — that provide features for sciences and ontology + context for multi-agent loops

Co-Own the Agentic Reference Architecture. With peer AI/ML platform teams, design the agent harness (including trust frameworks), core orchestrator pattern, semantic/business-context layers, and the tool contracts for the ML and data platforms while being model agnostic

Lead Complex Product-to-Market Agent Workflows. Build and deploy multi-agent systems that orchestrate tool-use and multi-step reasoning across Design, Development, and Sourcing — auto-generating BOMs, negotiating RFPs, allocating materials, etc.

Partner on Guardrails & Governance. Drive FinOps including cost-aware routing across Vertex Model Garden based on latency, cost, and capability, backed by real data. Collaborate closely with Trust, Security, and Governance teams to ensure agents ship safe, grounded, entitlement-aware, and gated against non-deterministic failures

Elevate the Engineering Bar. Mentor data and agent engineers across delivery pods and vendor-augmented teams by building alongside them, not just reviewing PRs; represent agentic engineering in architecture reviews with senior technology leadership

12+ years, hands-on. In software/data/ML engineering, with recent experience building and shipping production AI/ML systems — ideally LLM-based agents or multi-agent orchestration, not just classical ML pipelines. You're still writing and reviewing code by choice, not solely reviewing architecture diagrams

Staff/Principal/Architect track record. At a large, complex enterprise, you've set technical standards that other engineering teams were expected to follow, not just proposed them

Production agent and cloud AI experience. Comfort with orchestration patterns (e.g., LangGraph, custom orchestrators, or equivalent), and hands-on depth with at least one major cloud AI stack (GCP/Vertex preferred). You've built or owned LLM-as-judge pipelines, golden datasets, or comparable quality gates for a production AI system, not just discussed them conceptually

Comfortable with conflict. Across engineering, sciences, platform, senior leadership, and security, you stand behind core design principles and rigor