We're looking for a Senior Principal Al Engineer This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

About Cornerstone

Cornerstone powers the future-ready workforce with modern, AI-driven employment solutions. Our platform enables companies to develop, manage, and engage their talent—unlocking growth and innovation across organizations of all sizes.

Who We’re Looking For

Cornerstone is seeking a visionary and highly accomplished Distinguished Principal AI Engineer to spearhead the creation of groundbreaking AI and machine learning solutions across our industry-leading workforce agility - Galaxy ecosystem. This is a rare opportunity for a true innovator—someone who thrives on architecting and hands-on building intelligent, autonomous systems at massive scale. You’ll be driving the future of workforce technology by delivering AI-powered applications that are robust, secure, ethical, and brilliantly performant.

In this role you will…

Advanced Architecture & System Design: Architect, implement, and scale modern, distributed AI systems—including training pipelines,



streaming data processing, serverless microservices, and MLOps infrastructure—to deliver enterprise-grade reliability and security.
Lead end-to-end technical delivery of AI Native Products —owning E2E architecture/design and hands-on engineering excellence from design through deployment, scaling, and continuous improvement.
Lead E2E architecture for AI native SaaS Products —distributed systems, APIs, integrations, security, and reliability.
Drive hands-on software engineering across the full lifecycle (design, build, deploy, optimize) with strong engineering fundamentals.
Architect and scale up-to-date distributed architectures (serverless/microservices, Kubernetes, Docker) and data/compute workflows.
Build production-grade AI/ML capabilities (LLMs/GenAI, NLP, recommenders) with MLOps-grade reliability and monitoring.
Design end-to-end streaming + batch data pipelines (ETL, Spark, data lakes) and scalable inference

📌 Senior Principal Al Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Cornerstone OnDemand
📍 Hyderabad