Principal AI Ops Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Jul 13, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
The full-time remote Principal AI Ops Engineer will build and maintain the infrastructure for AI-powered products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop deployment pipelines, manage runtime environments, and ensure cost visibility for AI services.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and maintain end-to-end deployment pipelines for AI applications, driving new deployment platforms from initial build to standard use
- Operate the runtime and lifecycle infrastructure for production agents, defining deployment contracts and operational SLOs
- Design and build a shared developer harness for AI services, facilitating prompt management, model routing, and policy enforcement
Required qualifications:
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
- 6+ years of platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience, including 2+ years with AI/ML systems
- Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for high-velocity engineering organizations
- Strong AWS background with hands-on experience in IAM, networking, and container orchestration
- Fluency in Python or TypeScript, with experience in a polyglot environment spanning multiple programming languages
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