Senior Principal AI Engineer- United States

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Senior Principal AI Engineer- United States

This role is Remote, United States

Job Title : Principal AI Engineer

Location : Dublin, CA

Years of Experience : 8–10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including building and scaling AI-powered systems in production

Position Overview

We are seeking a Principal AI Engineer to design, build, and scale AI-driven systems across our product platforms. This role is ideal for a deeply technical engineer who leads through hands-on contribution, solves complex problems, and drives the adoption of AI into real-world products.

The ideal candidate brings strong backend and cloud fundamentals, mandatory experience with Java and AWS, and proven experience integrating AI and Generative AI capabilities into production systems. You will work closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, AI-enabled solutions that create meaningful business impact.

Key Responsibilities

AI Engineering & System Design

• Design, build, and operate **AI-powered applications,** including LLM-based services, ML-driven workflows, and intelligent automation.

• Integrate AI capabilities into **Java-based backend systems** and cloud-native platforms.

• Design scalable **API-first services** (REST & GraphQL) exposing AI capabilities across products.

• Implement data pipelines supporting **feature engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and inference.**

• Apply best practices for **prompt design, model orchestration, evaluation, and observability.**

Cloud & Platform Engineering (AWS – Must Have)

• Build and operate **cloud-native AI systems on AWS,** including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and EKS.

• Design containerized workloads using **Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)**.

• Optimize systems for **scalability, latency, reliability, and cost...