Principal AI Engineer

Egen

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$219,245–$290,000/yr

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About the opportunity:

  • As a Principal AI Engineer, you set the technical direction for our most complex Generative AI work and are personally hands-on building it.
  • You take systems from ambiguous business problems to robust, scalable production services, solving for latency, reliability, cost, and governance.
  • You are the technical face of engagements, partnering with client leadership to translate strategy into AI architecture.

What you will do:

  • Set technical direction and own architecture for our most complex GenAI and agentic systems end-to-end.
  • Build at the frontier with hands-on coding using Python on Google Cloud, LLMs, and advanced RAG.
  • Multiply the team through architecture reviews, mentorship, and setting a high bar for AI-augmented engineering.

Your technical toolkit:

  • Mastery of Python, shell scripting, and the modern AI engineering stack.
  • Deep expertise with Google Gemini, GPT-class models, and open models like LLaMA.
  • Proven experience designing and productionizing agentic systems and vector search at scale.

Personal attributes:

  • Ownership at scale, taking responsibility for outcomes and team success.
  • Curiosity that stays at the frontier of AI and brings the team along.
  • Consultative authority that earns trust in high-stakes client engagements.

Egen

Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset, helping clients drive action and impact through data and insights using advanced technology platforms like Google Cloud and Salesforce. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work, dedicated to learning, thriving on solving tough problems, and continually innovating to achieve fast, effective results.

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