# Contract Systems Architect — AI, AWS & Consumer Platforms at MarcoPolo Learning

- Company: MarcoPolo Learning
- What the company does: MarcoPolo is an award-winning educational media company for children ages 3-7. Based in London with offices in New York and Shanghai, MarcoPolo produces broadcast-quality STEAM and English Language Learning curriculum for both home and school. Backed by Seedcamp.
- Company website: https://marcopololearning.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Apply by: 2026-12-18
- Apply: https://marcopololearning.bamboohr.com/careers/203?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/marcopolo-learning-contract-systems-architect-ai-aws-and-consumer-platforms/

## About the role

We’re an AI-focused consumer technology startup building products designed to reach a large user base. We’re looking for an experienced Systems Architect to help us make practical technical decisions, deliver reliable AI capabilities, and establish infrastructure that can grow with the business. This is a project-based contract role. Each engagement will have an agreed scope, timeline, deliverables, and acceptance criteria. Follow-on projects may be available as our needs evolve. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Assess our product requirements, existing architecture, and infrastructure, identify risks, bottlenecks, and priorities
- Design AWS architectures for consumer applications, including APIs, compute, storage, databases, caching, queues, and asynchronous processing
- Evaluate AI models and providers against representative workloads, balancing output quality, latency, reliability, privacy, and cost
- Design AI capabilities such as retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool use, and agent orchestration where they improve the product
- Establish production controls for AI workflows, including evaluations, tracing, execution limits, retries, fallbacks, and appropriate human approval
- Address consumer platform needs such as authentication, authorization, user data protection, traffic spikes, abuse prevention, and responsive user experiences

Tags: Product and Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/marcopolo-learning-contract-systems-architect-ai-aws-and-consumer-platforms/