About this role
Position Summary C2 Labs is seeking a Principal AI Platform Architect to help design and deliver AI-powered solutions that improve operational efficiency, automation, and decision-making across regulated environments that is on site in Knoxville, TN. This role will lead the architecture and implementation of enterprise AI capabilities, including intelligent automation, knowledge systems, workflow orchestration, and platform integrations, while ensuring scalability, security, and governance. What You'll Do Security, Compliance & Governance Design secure AI architectures for regulated environments Implement AI governance and model security controls Support FedRAMP, RMF, CMMC, and government compliance requirements Develop reusable compliance intelligence and automation frameworks AI Platform Architecture Define and evolve enterprise AI platform strategy Design scalable AI services, agent frameworks, and orchestration patterns Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies Establish AI governance, security, and architecture standards Agentic AI & Knowledge Systems Design multi-agent systems and human-in-the-loop workflows Build enterprise copilots, digital workers, and AI-driven automation Architect Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions Design vector search, semantic retrieval, and knowledge architectures Integrate structured and unstructured enterprise data sources Platform Integration & Automation Design API-first architectures and workflow orchestration strategies Integrate AI capabilities with: Microsoft Copilot Studio Power Platform ServiceNow Archer eMASS Security and compliance tooling Required Qualifications Experience 10+ years of software, platform, or solution architecture experience 3+ years building production AI systems Experience leading architecture from concept through deployment Technical Expertise Agentic AI architectures RAG and vector databases LLM orchestration frameworks Cloud-native architectures Enterprise SaaS platforms API integrations and workflow orchestration OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, or Vertex AI Preferred Archer, RegScale, eMASS, Xacta, or similar platforms Product strategy, enterprise architecture, or AI productization experience Why Join C2 Labs? You'll have the opportunity to shape a first-of-its-kind AI-powered compliance platform that combines intelligent agents, enterprise knowledge systems, and automation to transform how organizations achieve and maintain compliance in highly regulated environments. EEO STATEMENT: We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. Employment offers will be contingent on passing a pre-employment drug screen.