Principal Engineer - Agentic Development
Core
Directing, specifying, and verifying the output of a fleet of specialized coding agents to build mission-critical, low-latency, heavily regulated software for real-time decisions.
Role type
Principal Engineer (Agentic Development)
Builds
Production-grade engineering output for fraud detection, credit risk, regulatory compliance, marketing, and customer engagement platforms.
Domain
Financial analytics, credit risk, fraud detection, regulated software.
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software architecture, testing practices, long-term maintainability, AI coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor), technical judgement, spec-driven development, context engineering, agent orchestration, Python, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, ML model deployment, real-time decisioning systems.
Preferred skills
Spec-driven development, context engineering, agent orchestration, regulated/audited software delivery processes, controlled change management, decisioning, credit risk, fraud detection, analytics, optimization, data engineering, human-AI collaboration.
Responsibilities
Translate early stage ideation into structured Proof of Concepts; Produce detailed specifications and acceptance criteria for coding agents; Apply rigorous quality standards to agent generated output; Operate within the agentic harness using guides and automated sensors; Identify root cause of recurring agent errors; Maintain repository documentation and contextual knowledge; Apply technical judgement to architecture decisions and edge case analysis.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship
