Principal Software Development Engineer - AI

Title: Principal Software Development Engineer - AI Location: Remote - able to start 9am EST time Duration: Permanent - Direct hire Requirements: At least 18 months of recent, continuous experience personally building, shipping, and supporting active customer-facing AI products in production. Strong product taste, with a record of turning emerging AI capabilities into useful, trustworthy experiences that customers understand and choose to use. Significant software engineering experience with Staff-level scope or equivalent, plus a clear desire to remain deeply involved in coding and delivery. Experience owning the full lifecycle of AI products, from customer problem and prototype through evaluation, launch, production operations, and iteration. Strong distributed-systems and full-stack architecture experience across modern front ends and Python back ends; .NET/C# experience is helpful but not required. Practical knowledge of Clean Architecture and the judgment to turn ambiguous problems into maintainable production systems. Fluency in the modern AI platform landscape, including model selection, agent orchestration, MCP and inter-agent interoperability, eval-gated delivery, observability, and vector-enabled persistence. Strong product, security, and business judgment, with the ability to make and communicate decisions using customer value, quality, cost, latency, control, risk, and optionality. … mais