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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-25

Core

Design system architecture for AI-powered products and platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance while translating emerging AI capabilities into reliable product experiences.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (AI/ML Systems Architect)

Builds

Large-scale cloud or distributed systems, AI-powered products, and agentic systems

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System architecture design, AI/LLM integration, distributed systems engineering, technical strategy, mentorship, stakeholder collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience with agentic systems, retrieval technologies, observability practices

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Large Language Models, Agentic Systems

Responsibilities

Facilitate design discussions and create design documents, ensure system architecture meets security and scalability requirements, partner with stakeholders to gather user requirements, incorporate continuous feedback to improve designs, shape technical strategy and influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, deliver measurable customer outcomes

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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