Principal Engineer, Agent Platform
Core
Designing and building the technical foundation for an enterprise AI agent platform, including services, frameworks, and guardrails for secure, reliable, and scalable agent operations.
Role type
Principal Engineer, Agent Platform
Builds
Enterprise AI agent platform services, model gateway, agent runtime, and governance controls
Domain
Enterprise AI, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, LLM/Generative AI, Agent Orchestration, Vector Search, Cloud Security, Distributed Systems, Observability, Policy-as-Code (via careerplan.io/jobs/R219408-principal-engineer-agent-platform-at-gapinc)
Preferred skills
AI Evaluation, Context Management, Human-in-the-loop workflows
Technologies
Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini, GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub)
Responsibilities
Design core platform services, define architecture and engineering patterns, develop model gateway, build agent runtime, implement security and identity mechanisms, create testing and evaluation frameworks, implement observability tooling, mentor engineers
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence
