Principal Engineer, AI
Core
Define AI technical direction and build shared foundations (evaluation harnesses, safety guardrails, observability) to enable teams to ship reliable AI features for early education platforms.
Role type
Principal Engineer, AI-native and product-minded
Builds
AI-powered capabilities for retention, enrollment, payment success, and operational efficiency in childcare management software
Domain
Early education technology / Applied AI
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Architectural strategy, build-vs-buy judgment, production AI at scale, mentorship of senior engineers, end-to-end system ownership, rapid prototyping
Preferred skills
Model training and fine-tuning experience, classical NLP/ML background, building shared internal platforms/frameworks, formal CS degree
Technologies
AWS Bedrock, orchestration and agent frameworks, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React, Kubernetes, AWS services
Responsibilities
Define AI technical direction and roadmap, drive build-versus-buy decisions, lead by implementation via reference prototypes, build shared foundations for safe AI deployment, mentor senior and staff engineers, align stakeholders on adoption
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
