# Principal AI Architect at Security Scorecard

- Company: Security Scorecard
- What the company does: Protect your supply chain and manage third-party cyber risk with SecurityScorecard. Trusted by 25,000+ organizations for continuous vendor monitoring and TPRM. Backed by Sequoia and GV.
- Company website: https://www.securityscorecard.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Hybrid (NYC / Austin)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $270K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/securityscorecard/jobs/8191929
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/security-scorecard-principal-ai-architect/

## About the role

SecurityScorecard is hiring a Principal Software Architect to lead the system design of our agentic AI capabilities and serve as a technical anchor for engineering teams building the next generation of our platform. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Chief Architect, alongside a Front-end Architect and a Data-focused Architect, and partnering closely with engineering leadership, Product, and Data Science.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time as a senior, staff, or principal-level architect or technical lead designing production systems
- Deep expertise in distributed systems: service boundaries, consistency models, event-driven architecture, API design (REST, gRPC familiarity a plus), and operating systems reliably at scale
- Working knowledge of data engineering fundamentals, including data modeling, pipeline design, and streaming vs. batch, sufficient to make informed architectural calls without deep specialization in the domain
- A track record of influence without authority: presenting a technical direction to skeptical engineers and earning genuine buy-in, and giving rigorous design review feedback on systems you didn't build yourself
- Strong technical writing and mentorship: TDRs, design docs, and decision records that teams can act on without hand-holding, plus a history of raising the technical bar around you
- Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to executives and customers

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