Overview

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees, we solve problems that impact manufacturing, medicine, clean water, and green mobility. We welcome makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who want to do their best work.

Role

Director of Agentic AI Architecture at Rockwell, an influential technical leader responsible for defining, championing, and executing the architectural vision and technical roadmap for cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence initiatives. You will be a hands-on expert while providing strategic guidance, designing and implementing advanced agentic AI systems with autonomy and self-learning capabilities. This role shapes Rockwell\'s AI-powered products and services and requires collaboration with cross-functional executive and technical teams to translate business objectives into scalable, innovative agentic AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Agentic AI Architectural Vision & Strategy: Define and drive the agentic AI architectural vision and strategy, pioneering and implementing agentic AI systems that push autonomy, self-learning, and complex decision-making.
• Next-Generation Solution Design Leadership: Lead architectural design and implementation of scalable, high-performance agentic AI systems with seamless integration of components and external data sources and tools.
• Technology Leadership: Evaluate and recommend emerging AI/ML technologies, frameworks, and platforms, especially MAS, reinforcement learning, autonomous decision-making, and open standards such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for interoperability.
• Scalability and Performance: Design agentic AI systems focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency for massive datasets and high traffic.
• Data Architecture: Collaborate with data engineering to define data ingestion, storage, processing, and governance strategies supporting agentic AI development and deployment.
• MLOps for Agentic Systems: Architect robust deployment, monitoring, and management of interacting agents and their collective behavior, including tracking emergent properties and system-level performance.
• Collaboration and Communication: Partner with product managers, engineering leaders, researchers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, present architectural options, and provide technical guidance.
• Technical Guidance and Mentorship: Provide leadership and mentorship to AI/ML engineers and scientists, fostering a culture of innovation.
• Risk Management and Compliance: Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring security, privacy, and ethical guidelines compliance.

Essentials

• Bachelor\'s Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• The ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred

• Master\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Typically requires 12 years of management experience.
• 10+ years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale software systems with a focus on AI/ML.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML concepts, algorithms, and frameworks with expertise in agentic systems and MCP.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their AI/ML services.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering (e.g., Spark, Beam, Kafka, Flink, Lakehouses, Delta).
• Experience with MLOps for model deployment, monitoring, and management including containerization and orchestration.
• Experience with RAG; frameworks, tools, fine-tuning, and integrating vector databases with LLMs.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience implementing AI standards including ethical and responsible AI practices.

What We Offer

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Benefits details: www.raquickfind.com

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your experience doesn\'t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary Range: from $208,000.00 - $312,000.00 with an annual target bonus of 20% of base salary. Actual pay will be based on skills, knowledge, education, and experience. Our benefits for the US can be found here.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at +1 (844) 404-7247.