Principal AI Engineer – Technical Lead

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Responsibilities Own the overall technical architecture and engineering direction of the AI-native enterprise platform. Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and practical technical solutions. Design and develop reusable platform capabilities across AI, backend, infrastructure, data, and enterprise integrations. Lead the selection and implementation of AI models, frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and development technologies. Design and implement AI solutions involving LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, RAG, and context engineering. Develop and maintain secure integrations with enterprise systems, APIs, databases, and external services. Establish security-by-design principles across the platform, including authentication, authorization, identity, access control, and data protection. Make key technical decisions related to scalability, reliability, performance, privacy, and cybersecurity. Remain hands-on by architecting, prototyping, coding, and delivering critical platform components. Conduct technical architecture and code reviews while maintaining high standards for testing, documentation, quality, and maintainability. Plan and oversee technical delivery across the engineering team and ensure alignment with product objectives. Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to understand technical requirements and translate business challenges into effective solutions. Mentor engineers and contribute to building the future engineering team, technical culture, and development practices. Desired Candidate Profile Minimum 6 years of experience in Software Engineering, AI Engineering, or a closely related technical field. Proven experience designing, architecting, and delivering production-grade software and platforms. Significant recent hands-on experience building and deploying AI/LLM-powered applications. Strong backend and full-stack engineering experience. Strong hands-on experience with Python and TypeScript. Experience working with commercial and/or open-source LLMs. Strong experience with AI agents, tool calling, RAG, and context engineering. Strong knowledge of APIs, databases, distributed systems, and scalable software architecture. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. Proven experience taking products or platforms from 0 to 1 and bringing them into production. Strong understanding of secure software architecture, secure API design, and data protection. Good knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity, access control, and threat modelling. Strong technical judgment with the ability to make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions. Experience with enterprise cybersecurity, Zero Trust, AI security, prompt injection, or agent security is highly preferred. Experience in privacy, data governance, or regulated and security-sensitive environments is a strong plus. Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex enterprise requirements into practical technical solutions. Company Industry RecruitmentPlacement FirmExecutive Search Department / Functional Area IT Software Keywords Principal AI Engineer – Technical Lead Get real-time job updates only on our App