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Principal AI Platform Engineer

Santa Clara, California, us💼 Full-time💰 $221,200–$221,200🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead architect for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) designing, building, and operating autonomous intelligence systems, agent runtimes, and AI-native applications for CRM & Industry Engineering.

Role type

Principal AI Platform Engineer (Lead Architect)

Builds

Autonomous agent systems, reasoning pipelines, orchestration platforms, and AI-native applications for Case Management and Conversational channels.

Domain

Enterprise Software / AI / Agentic Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System design, data structures and algorithms, AI/ML fundamentals (LLMs, embeddings, probabilistic output), agentic coding tools and agent patterns, autonomous systems design (planning loops, multi-agent collaboration), context engineering

Preferred skills

Advanced degrees, relevant certifications

Technologies

ServiceNow AI Platform, agentic coding tools

Responsibilities

Establish FDE best practices and reference architecture for 30+ engineers, translate customer use cases into Agentic AI solutions, orchestrate AI agents to build and refactor software, engineer context for reliable agent output, verify and review output against intent, make architectural decisions under uncertainty, own quality, security, and reliability in production

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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