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Principal AI Software Engineering Lead

Irving, Texas, United States💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Drive adoption of AI-powered software engineering platforms and agentic development capabilities across enterprise engineering teams to accelerate software delivery and improve developer productivity.

Role type

Principal AI Software Engineering Lead (Strategy & Technical Leadership)

Builds

AI-assisted development workflows, agentic development practices, and engineering productivity frameworks

Domain

Enterprise Software Engineering, AI/ML, Cloud-Native Platforms

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

AI-assisted software engineering, Backend/Platform engineering, Technical leadership, Software architecture, Prompt engineering, Engineering metrics analysis

Preferred skills

Spec-driven development, Robotics/Physical AI exposure, Cloud platform expertise, DevOps/DEP experience

Technologies

Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Java/Spring Boot, Python, AWS, Azure

Responsibilities

Evaluate and benchmark AI software engineering platforms; Define and implement AI-assisted engineering best practices and governance; Partner with teams to execute high-value AI pilot initiatives; Design and promote agentic development workflows; Measure and analyze developer productivity and SDLC efficiency; Create reference architectures for AI-native development; Mentor engineering teams on AI-powered tools; Drive continuous improvement for delivery velocity and code quality.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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