Principal AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• In the role of Principal AI Engineer, you will take charge of the inference and intelligence layer of the Exactera platform.

• Develop the foundation that supports agentic workflows.

• Determine the technical strategy, make decisions regarding build versus buy, and guide other senior engineers.

• Assess the technology stack against actual workloads and suggest modifications when necessary.

• Work in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product engineering, product management, and tax advisory domain experts.

• Design and manage the typed graph of tax-related entities and their relationships.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, with substantial expertise in at least two of the following areas prior to focusing on AI/ML: information retrieval and search infrastructure, knowledge representation, distributed systems, data-intensive applications, or platform engineering.

• More than 5 years in ML engineering, ML infrastructure, or the development of AI platforms.

• Hands-on experience with knowledge graphs or structured reasoning systems in conjunction with vector search and large language models (LLMs).

• Proficiency in hybrid retrieval design.

• Experience with RAG architecture and LLM integration in production environments, including cost optimization, retrieval quality assessment, regression detection, and reliability under load.

• Familiarity with AI infrastructure tailored for document-heavy workflows, including the extraction, classification, and analysis of semi-structured and unstructured documents into structured formats.

• Experience with model serving infrastructure in production, ensuring real-time inference endpoints meet latency, cost, and reliability service level agreements (SLAs), along with experiment tracking, model registry, and deployment lifecycle tools.

• Design of evaluation frameworks for retrieval and LLM-based systems.

• Development of APIs, SDKs, or platform services intended for use by other engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in Python engineering; experience with Node/TypeScript in production is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• A collaborative team culture that fosters career development opportunities.

• Numerous chances to gain recognition, develop valuable skills, and advance your career.

• Generous vacation policy, which includes paid parental leave.

• Comprehensive health plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).

• 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Coverage for life and disability insurance.

• Additional benefits such as a dependent care savings plan, pet insurance, will preparation services, and an employee assistance program.