Principal AI Engineer
Core
Design and deliver enterprise-scale AI platform capabilities to help teams build, deploy, evaluate, and operate AI-powered applications securely and reliably.
Role type
Principal AI Engineer (Platform & Cloud Architecture)
Builds
Scalable AI systems, production-grade backend services, orchestration frameworks, and reusable platform components.
Domain
Fintech / Enterprise AI / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, distributed systems design, event-driven architectures, Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation/Helm), GenAI patterns (RAG, agents, evaluation), observability, security governance, CI/CD, technical leadership, mentoring.
Preferred skills
Enterprise AI platform development, AI observability platforms, fintech regulated environment experience, high-security environment support.
Technologies
Python, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Docker, CI/CD tools.
Responsibilities
Design scalable architectures for AI applications and data-intensive workloads; build production-grade backend services and orchestration frameworks; define platform patterns and implementation standards; translate business requirements into secure technical solutions; drive architectural decisions across service boundaries and data flows; design and evolve cloud-native foundations including networking and deployment automation; establish standards for observability, SLOs, and disaster recovery; produce architecture documentation and lead reviews; contribute hands-on through development and code reviews; evaluate emerging AI and cloud technologies.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence and mentorship.