Principal Applied AI Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal AI engineer leading production AI systems for CINC’s community-management platform. Building Cephai-powered automation, retrieval, and operational tools while mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the direction of a product team in partnership with a Product Lead
  • Design and build production-grade, Cephai-powered systems that bring the right context into the work
  • Lead a small engineering team building intelligent automation workflows, retrieval-based systems, and AI-driven operational tooling
  • Ensure AI systems run reliably in a large production environment and integrate cleanly with the rest of the platform
  • Work closely with operations, product, design, sales, marketing, and client support leaders to solve client problems
  • Recruit and mentor strong engineers and support highly skilled team members
  • Shape architectural patterns and engineering practices across the organization
  • Develop team processes that support quality, product excellence, and user satisfaction
  • Help evolve CINC's AI stack with clarity, safety, and measurable impact

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience
  • Fluency in Python, Node, TypeScript, and other programming languages
  • Proven ability to design and deploy production AI architectures combining backend engineering with agent orchestration
  • Strong working knowledge of LangGraph, LangChain, and similar orchestration frameworks
  • Practical experience building AI-enabled applications using APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Bedrock, including context management, streaming responses, and evaluation
  • Familiarity with vector databases, semantic search, and embedding pipelines
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including API design, microservices, and system integration patterns such as service mesh, API gateway, and event-driven architectures
  • Practical experience with cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or equivalent, including serverless compute and containerized deployments
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, set direction, and raise standards for quality and maintainability
  • Ability to explain complex trade-offs and design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to architectural strategy
  • Ability to deliver in a fast-moving, global environment
  • Strategic judgment in build-versus-buy decisions
  • Experience with Extreme Programming, continuous delivery, automated testing, and trunk-based development is a strong advantage

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with hybrid optional
  • Mentorship and professional growth opportunities
  • Collaboration with global teams
  • Leadership and architectural influence across the organization

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesNode.jsPythonTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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