We're looking for a Principal AI Engineer This role is Office Based

Principal AI Engineer - Generative AI

We're looking for a highly experienced and creative Principal AI Engineer to drive the development and adoption of our LLM Platform and Generative AI initiatives. Innovation is at the core of this role — you will be expected to continuously push boundaries, experiment with emerging AI techniques, and translate cutting-edge research into production systems. You will architect scalable AI platforms, shape our engineering strategy, and provide expert guidance across cross-functional teams.

In This Role You Will

• Hands-on Development: Design, build, and test core LLM platform components, Generative AI agents, and supporting tooling in Java — ensuring production-grade quality, performance, and reliability.
• Architecture & System Design: Lead the design and implementation of robust, scalable systems for LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, agent workflows (Google ADK), fine-tuning, model serving, and API development on AWS.
• RAG & Knowledge Systems:



Architect and own Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems end-to-end — embedding pipelines, vector store selection and tuning, chunking strategies, retrieval evaluation, and integration with generative models.
• Agent Engineering: Build and evolve multi-agent systems using Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), defining patterns for tool use, memory, orchestration, and inter-agent communication.
• Innovation & Research: Actively track and evaluate emerging Generative AI research, frameworks, and tools. Prototype novel ideas, run experiments, and champion the adoption of techniques that create competitive advantage.
• Performance & Evaluation: Define evaluation metrics and conduct rigorous assessments of Generative AI and RAG solutions to ensure business impact and continuous improvement.
• Mentorship: Mentor and inspire junior and mid-level engineers — through code reviews, pairing sessions, design guidance, and delibera

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