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Principal AI Engineer

Dublin, Ireland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior technology and architecture advisor for new business opportunities, evaluating technical feasibility, shaping solution concepts, and guiding AI-enabled opportunity identification within Mastercard's innovation and growth organization.

Role type

Principal AI Engineer (Strategy & Architecture)

Builds

Agentic and AI-enabled opportunity identification capabilities, taxonomies, prompt architectures, agent workflows, and supporting intelligence systems.

Domain

Payments / Financial Services / AI & Agentic Systems

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Backend engineering (Java, Kotlin, Python, Scala), LLMs and AI services integration, Agent frameworks and workflow orchestration, Cloud platforms (AWS EMR, Aurora, Databricks, Snowflake), Data processing pipelines, Security and compliance, Technical strategy and trade-off analysis, Mentoring and influence

Preferred skills

Experience in build/buy/partner/acquire decision-making, Ambiguous problem space navigation, Cross-functional collaboration

Technologies

Python, Scala, Spark, SQL, AWS EMR, Aurora, Databricks, Snowflake, LLMs, Agent frameworks

Responsibilities

Evaluate new ideas and market signals through a technology and architecture lens; Support design of agentic and AI-enabled opportunity identification capabilities; Assess opportunities for build, partner, invest, acquire, or discontinue pathways; Challenge assumptions and identify technical risks early; Guide architecture decisions during incubation to scale phases; Identify reusable assets to accelerate value creation across opportunities.

Seniority

Principal (L5), Strategy & Mentorship

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