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principal

AI Engineer

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englishB2
experience12+ years
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We are looking for an experienced Principal AI Engineer to lead the architecture, technical strategy, and evolution of enterprise-scale AI platforms and GenAI-powered solutions. The role requires strong hands-on experience with production AI systems, RAG, AI orchestration, distributed platforms, and AI engineering standards.

 

Responsibilities

 

  • Define and own the architecture of enterprise-scale AI platforms
  • Design and develop production-grade GenAI systems and AI-powered solutions
  • Lead the development of RAG pipelines, retrieval infrastructure, and AI orchestration frameworks
  • Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven architectures
  • Establish standards for AI quality, evaluation, observability, governance, and model lifecycle management
  • Define and scale AI-driven software-development practices, including tools, guardrails, and automation patterns
  • Drive architecture decisions and technical alignment across multiple engineering teams
  • Build reusable AI platform components, frameworks, and internal tooling
  • Conduct architecture and code reviews and mentor senior and Staff-level engineers
  • Collaborate with product, data, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams
  • Document architectural decisions, technical standards, and organizational best practices
  • Lead technical initiatives across distributed international teams

     

Requirements

 

  • 12+ years of professional software-engineering experience
  • Significant experience working at Staff or Principal Engineer level
  • Strong hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade GenAI / LLM systems
  • Expert-level Python engineering skills
  • Strong experience with LLM applications, RAG, vector databases, and retrieval infrastructure
  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, semantic search, or similar AI frameworks
  • Strong understanding of AI evaluation, model lifecycle management, observability, and MLOps
  • Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong knowledge of APIs, data pipelines, event-driven systems, and high-scale platforms
  • Experience driving architecture and platform initiatives across multiple teams
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability
  • Ability to influence technical decisions and drive alignment without formal authority
  • Experience collaborating with distributed teams across different regions and time zones
  • Professional English, Upper-Intermediate or higher

     

Nice to have

 

  • Experience building enterprise AI platforms or internal AI developer platforms
  • Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure automation
  • Experience with MLOps platforms and model monitoring
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing
  • Experience establishing AI governance and engineering standards across organizations
  • Experience working with distributed teams across the US, China, and LATAM
  • Experience in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, healthcare, or other complex domains