Principal AI Engineer

Principal AI Engineer

Location: United States (Remote) - Only US Citizens or GC
Team: AI-Enhanced Product Engineering

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal AI Engineer to guide a distributed team of developers in building modern, scalable, and AI-integrated software solutions. As a technical leader, you'll be responsible for architectural oversight, system design, and AI strategy. You will play a crucial role in mentoring our global distributed developers, helping them decompose complex features into clear, modular tasks and leveraging AI tools to improve the speed, quality, and innovation of our delivery.

This is a highly impactful role, ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of software engineering, AI-assisted development, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Provide technical leadership for the team, guiding the design, development, and deployment of software solutions that leverage AI to solve complex business problems. Design scalable, modular systems and communicate architectural decisions across services and domains. Ensure all development aligns with modern architectural principles like domain-driven design and microservices.
• Agentic AI & Prompt Engineering: Be a subject matter expert in Agentic AI integration, including architecting and building robust MCPs/APIs and AI Agents to facilitate AI capabilities within existing platforms. Develop and refine prompt strategies to guide AI agents in writing code, documentation, and tests, leveraging LLM tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve overall development efficiency.
• System Design & Task Decomposition: Translate high-level product goals into actionable engineering tasks optimized for both human and AI execution. Provide in-depth code reviews (for both human- and AI-generated code), ensuring performance, security, and correctness across the entire codebase.
• Mentorship & Coaching: Actively mentor globally distributed developers, providing technical guidance and fostering a learning culture.