Principal II AI Platform Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a Principal II AI Platform Engineer in a full-time remote capacity, this role will architect, build, and scale production generative AI applications, driving technical decisions for AI architecture and integration with the Databricks ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of production GenAI applications, including member-facing AI agents and API-based workflows
• Design reusable agent infrastructure and establish production AI engineering practices for evaluation, testing, and monitoring
• Make cross-team technical decisions on AI architecture and scalability while mentoring engineers and communicating standards

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of experience in production systems, with a proven record of setting technical direction for large initiatives
• 5+ years of hands-on Databricks experience at production scale, including Lakehouse architecture and Spark performance tuning
• Strong foundation in traditional machine learning or deep learning, with recent experience in agentic GenAI engineering
• Proven experience building and deploying production GenAI applications, including APIs and conversational products