Principal AI Engineer

Full time on site
Principal AI Engineer
Job Description

Job Summary

We are looking for an exceptional Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and deployment of enterprise-scale AI platforms. This is a senior technical leadership role requiring extensive experience in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, Conversational AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Voice AI.

The successful candidate will drive AI strategy, architect production-grade AI solutions, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with executive leadership to deliver innovative AI capabilities across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and lead enterprise AI solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI, Conversational AI, and LLM technologies.
  • Design and optimize advanced RAG pipelines, semantic search, embeddings, vector databases, and knowledge retrieval systems.
  • Build autonomous AI agents with reasoning, planning, tool integration, and multi-agent orchestration capabilities.
  • Develop production-grade conversational AI and Voice AI solutions with STT, TTS, VAD, and real-time streaming.
  • Lead LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, inference optimization, and model deployment.
  • Design scalable AI infrastructure using cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed GPU environments.
  • Establish AI governance, evaluation frameworks, observability, security, and Responsible AI practices.
  • Mentor senior AI engineers and provide technical leadership across AI initiatives.

Required Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field (Mandatory).
  • 15–20+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 10–12+ years of hands-on AI/ML experience.
  • 7–8+ years working with Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and enterprise AI applications.
  • Extensive experience designing Conversational AI, Agentic AI, and RAG-based solutions.
  • Expert-level Python programming skills.
  • Strong experience with vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and enterprise AI architectures.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, and CI/CD.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Technical Skills

AI Frameworks

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face
  • vLLM

Vector Databases

  • Pinecone
  • Milvus
  • Weaviate
  • FAISS
  • Azure AI Search

Voice AI

  • Whisper
  • Deepgram
  • ElevenLabs
  • Azure Speech Services

Backend \& Cloud

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with MLOps, LLMOps, AI Governance, and Responsible AI.
  • Research publications, patents, or contributions in Artificial Intelligence.
  • Experience with open-source foundation models such as Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, or Qwen.
  • Experience leading enterprise AI transformation and mentoring engineering teams.

Why Join Us?

  • Lead enterprise-scale AI transformation initiatives.
  • Work with cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.
  • Influence AI strategy and architecture across the organization.
  • Collaborate with highly experienced engineering and leadership teams.

Work Location: In person

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