Enterprise Agentic AI Architect

About the Role

Coursera’s AI adoption has moved fast — engineering teams code AI-first, dozens of internal tools have shipped, and functions across the business are building their own AI agents and automations. The next phase requires something different: a shared technical foundation that lets many teams build safely and cost-effectively at scale, instead of each team solving governance, security, and cost from scratch.

This role owns that foundation. The Senior Agentic AI Architect Lead designs and builds the core architecture that Coursera’s AI Builders and business pods will run on — so that a small team (a Business Product Owner, a Process Expert, an IT Product Owner, and an AI Engineer) can redesign a workflow and ship an AI-native solution in weeks, not months.

This is a hands-on architecture role, not a pure strategy role: you will be building, not just advising.

What You’ll Own

• Context & Semantic Architecture - Design how AI agents access and understand Coursera’s internal data and knowledge, so agents retrieve the right information rather than guessing or over-fetching. Establish reusable patterns for RAG, semantic search, structured data access, and enterprise context, partnering with the Data team on existing data models and pipelines.
• Agentic Architecture & Harness Engineering - Design reusable patterns for agent orchestration, tool use, multi-step workflows, state management, and human-in-the-loop decisions. Build the engineering harness around agents, including testing, evaluation, guardrails, retries, observability, and failure recovery, so agentic solutions are reliable and production-ready.
• Governance Architecture - Build technical guardrails that enforce—not just document—who can build what, what data and systems an agent can access, and what gets logged for audit and review. Establish standards for agent ownership, lifecycle management, and production readiness.
• Security Architecture - Design defenses specific to agentic AI, including agent identity and access control, least-privilege permissions, prompt injection, data leakage, secure credentials, and safe tool execution. Coordinate with Security to extend existing enterprise security standards.
• Self-Serve AI Development (“Vibe Coding”) with CI/CD Automation - Extend and mature Coursera’s self-serve deployment path so AI-assisted, conversational development ships through automated testing, security checks, and evaluation