Principal Machine Learning Engineer, AI

Salary: $194,200 - 326,600 per year Requirements:

• A masters degree or higher, or equivalent background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, emphasizing building products with cutting-edge multimodal LLMs
• Over 5 years of experience with a successful history of deploying large-scale ML models, particularly in the last 2-3 years with agent-based systems or multi-agent collaboration
• Proven experience in creating engaging dialogue systems that support long conversations, context-aware tool selection, and compliant response generation
• Experience in developing AI services that manage vast numbers of daily interactions with high availability, low latency, and strong fault tolerance
• Familiarity with diverse agentic AI frameworks like LangGraph, Agents SDK, AutoGen, and production ML infrastructure
• A strong plus is having published articles, patents, or high-impact research
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams and present to executive leadership

• Create large-scale, fault-tolerant agentic experiences that serve millions of customers
• Design and implement various interaction modes for agents, such as Voice AI and Deep Research
• Develop robust evaluation frameworks, tracing systems, and safety protocols to maintain the trustworthiness of our AI agents
• Stay at the forefront of emerging agentic technologies and transform them into market-ready products
• Lead intricate, multi-team projects that connect applied research with scalable engineering solutions
• Simplify complex research findings and AI system designs into actionable insights for diverse stakeholders, including executives and cross-functional teams

• AI
• Support
• Machine Learning

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last updated 36 week of 2026