Principal AI Engineer
SIDRAM TECHNOLOGIES
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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