Principal AI Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant challenges from the initial discovery phase through to launch, measurement, and iterative improvements.

• Leverage AI to enhance engineering methodologies and product delivery.

• Rapidly prototype, validate hypotheses, and utilize functional software to provide clarity.

• Uphold exceptional standards for quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and execution.

• Design and develop comprehensive AI services for retrieval, context, evaluation, and guardrails.

• Streamline go-to-market operational processes and enhance internal team efficiency.

• Manage the complete product lifecycle, encompassing customer and internal team discovery, success metrics, workflow and UX design, data evaluation planning, and iterative product releases.

• Develop shared AI abstractions and tools, including prompt and tool patterns, logging, monitoring, and reusable components.

• Influence data and system architecture to enable AI to integrate longitudinal signals from product, billing, support, and operations, and recommend subsequent actions.

• Provide mentorship to engineers and elevate standards for AI-augmented engineering and AI-driven feature operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Solid engineering principles across systems, data, APIs, product surfaces, and infrastructure.

• Proven experience managing production work from problem identification through to launch and iteration.

• Utilizes AI tools and agents as integral components of the engineering workflow.

• Capable of enhancing engineering velocity while maintaining quality standards.

• Experience in automating workflows at personal, team, or company levels.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and transforming unclear challenges into deliverable software.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across functions.

• Strong dedication to privacy, security, reliability, and building customer trust.

• Experience in launching AI-powered products, workflows, or internal tools into production.

• Familiarity with retrieval, tool utilization, evaluation, monitoring, orchestration, or agent workflows.

• Background in vertical SaaS, education, fintech, healthcare, CRM, ecommerce, or other operations-intensive fields.

• Experience in constructing AI-enhanced systems.

• History of collaborating with internal stakeholders to devise innovative solutions.

• Must be based in the United States.

• Authorized to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for equity participation.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous paid parental leave policy.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Local retirement or savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S.).

• Remote work options available across U.S. time zones.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace environment.