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Principal AI Engineer

SIDRAM TECHNOLOGIES
1 hour ago
Full-time
On-site
East New York, New York, United States
Terraform / CloudFormation Docker & production deployment NOW HIRING: PRINCIPAL AI ENGINEER Client: Turing

Position: Principal AI Engineer

Location: NYC, NY 3 Days WFO

Employment: FULL-TIME ONLY

Experience: 15+ YEARS REQUIRED

Schedule: EST Overlap

Role Overview Looking for a Staff/Principal AI Engineer to lead enterprise-scale Agentic AI implementations for Fortune 500 clients. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on designing and deploying autonomous, tool-calling AI systems that operate reliably at enterprise scale.

Must-have Skills

15+ years of software engineering experience

Strong hands-on Python development

Strong backend/system language: Go, Rust, Java, C/C++

Strong Data Structures, Algorithms & System Design

APIs, Microservices & Distributed Systems

Production-grade Data Pipelines

Agentic AI / LLM

2+ years hands-on LLM Engineering

Proven experience taking Agentic AI systems to production

LangGraph / Google ADK / CrewAI / Claude Agent SDK or equivalent

MCP Servers & Tool Calling

RAG chunking, embeddings, vector/hybrid retrieval & reranking

Vector DBs Pinecone / Milvus / Weaviate / FAISS

Guardrails, validators, policy checks & self-correction

Deterministic fallbacks, circuit breakers & rollback strategies

OPTIMIZATION & EVALUATION

Token & context-window optimization

Latency & cost optimization

Caching, model routing, batching & streaming

LLM evaluation frameworks & regression detection

LangSmith / Langfuse

Production observability & traceability

CLOUD & DEVOPS

Strong AWS ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Step Functions

Azure / GCP experience is a plus

CI/CD & DevOps

Terraform / CloudFormation

Docker & production deployment

LEADERSHIP

Enterprise AI architecture & implementation

Client stakeholder communication

Technical roadmap ownership

Mentoring & technical leadership

Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments

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