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Principal Software Engineer, AI Tooling & Adoption

USA - Oakland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the engineering-wide adoption of AI tools and practices to transform 500+ engineers into 'Bionic Engineers' and achieve significant productivity gains.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (AI Strategy & Adoption)

Builds

AI-augmented engineering workflows, virtual engineer capabilities, and adoption frameworks for the data infrastructure layer.

Domain

Data Infrastructure / AI Engineering / Developer Productivity

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

AI-powered development tools expertise, LLMs and prompt engineering, change management, strategic planning, stakeholder management, budget management, technical architecture, CI/CD workflows

Preferred skills

Virtual agents/coding assistants experience, enterprise AI governance, developer productivity background, high-growth SaaS experience

Technologies

Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Java, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, CircleCI

Responsibilities

Drive cultural transformation to AI-native practices, evaluate and integrate AI tools into workflows, manage $1M+ annual tool budget, present adoption metrics to executives, build communities of practice, establish AI usage guardrails

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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