Principal AI Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of AI-driven systems throughout Taxwell.

• Create and implement AI-enhanced tools that boost productivity across both engineering and non-engineering teams.

• Develop internal AI infrastructures, shared services, and reusable components.

• Construct and sustain retrieval-augmented generation systems based on internal documentation, codebases, tax knowledge, and proprietary data.

• Collaborate with DevOps, platform, and security teams to guarantee AI systems are scalable, observable, secure, and compliant.

• Integrate AI capabilities into existing Taxwell products to enhance accuracy, usability, personalization, and customer outcomes.

• Design and create new customer-facing products where AI serves as a key differentiator.

• Work alongside product, design, and tax domain experts to transform user challenges into AI-powered solutions.

• Ensure AI functionalities adhere to standards for reliability, explainability, and trust within the regulated tax domain.

• Design and implement agent-based systems utilizing LangChain, LangGraph, ADK, or similar frameworks.

• Assess and incorporate commercial and open-source AI technologies, including frontier models and open-weight LLMs.

• Set best practices for prompt engineering, evaluation, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.

• Shape AI architecture and technical direction through design reviews and hands-on collaboration.

• Evaluate system effectiveness through telemetry, automated metrics, and qualitative user feedback.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering.

• At least 3 years in a Principal or Staff-level position.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying production AI systems utilized by real users.

• Strong hands-on expertise with LLM-enabled systems, including prompt engineering, RAG, and agent orchestration.

• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.

• Experience in integrating AI systems with real-world applications, workflows, and data sources.

• Familiarity with vector databases and embedding techniques, such as Pinecone, FAISS, and Chroma.

• Experience in deploying and managing systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Strong architectural judgment with the ability to balance experimentation and production rigor.

• Experience in constructing AI platforms or internal copilots employed across various teams or departments.

• Proven track record in developing customer-facing AI products at scale.

• Background in regulated industries such as fintech, tax, or healthcare.

• Experience in fine-tuning or customizing open-weight models, including GPT-OSS-120B, Mistral 3, and GLM-4.7.

🏝️ Benefits

• Supportive, open, and inclusive work environment.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities.

• Disability accommodations available during the hiring process.