Principal AI Platform Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal AI Platform Engineer based in United States.

The Principal AI Platform Engineer will serve as a senior technical authority shaping enterprise adoption of Generative AI within a secure and governed technology environment.
The role combines advanced software engineering, AI platform expertise, architecture, and strategic technical leadership.
You will design scalable AI solutions spanning LLM applications, RAG architectures, intelligent agents, APIs, and reusable AI services.
Your work will establish engineering standards, strengthen platform reliability, and enable responsible AI adoption across multiple technology domains.
You will partner with senior technology and business leaders to translate strategic objectives into production-ready AI capabilities.
The position also offers the opportunity to mentor engineers and influence enterprise architecture, modernization, innovation, and AI strategy.
Success will require deep technical expertise, strong judgment, and the ability to drive complex initiatives across a highly regulated environment.

Accountabilities:

• Design, develop, and support enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions for AI-assisted development, documentation, testing, analytics, workflow automation, and other business and technology use cases.
• Lead the architecture, implementation, optimization, and operational support of Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions, including ingestion pipelines, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval frameworks, and semantic search capabilities.
• Design, review, and approve agent-based and tool-integrated AI architectures, including multi-step LLM workflows built with approved enterprise platforms and services.
• Develop and oversee APIs, shared services, and reusable frameworks that securely connect AI models with internal systems, enterprise platforms, and approved third-party tools.
• Establish prompt-engineering standards, evaluation methodologies, testing frameworks, and benchmarking practices to continuously improve AI solution quality, reliability, safety, and performance.
• Author secure, scalable, organized, and maintainable production code using multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, and C#, while promoting software engineering excellence across teams.
• Lead technical discussions with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, and senior stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable enterprise AI solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in Generative AI, AI platform engineering, enterprise application development, and responsible AI practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers on software engineering principles, AI architecture patterns, algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and enterprise platform design.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps that balance strategic AI initiatives, platform modernization, innovation, operational excellence, and technical debt reduction.
• Define and champion architecture standards, reusable design patterns, and implementation guidance for AI-enabled solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Analyze engineering, operational, and AI performance metrics to identify opportunities for process improvement, platform optimization, reliability, and increased adoption.
• Lead the implementation of resiliency, performance, observability, security, and reliability engineering practices across AI platforms and services.
• Drive responsible AI, model governance, security, compliance, privacy, and risk-management practices throughout the AI development lifecycle.
• Participate in enterprise architecture forums, engineering councils, and leadership committees, presenting complex technical concepts and influencing AI strategy and technology direction.
• Identify technology, security, compliance, and operational risks requiring escalation and ensure appropriate adherence to enterprise policies, controls, audit requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Promote a collaborative and inclusive engineering environment while contributing to broader technology initiatives and other related responsibilities as needed.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree with at least 9 years of systems analysis and/or application development experience, or Bachelor’s degree with at least 7 years of relevant experience; alternatively, a combination of education …