Principal Senior AI Engineer

Principal Senior AI Engineer

Job ID: 21707 Location: LATAM (Exclusive residents) Experience Required: 5+ years

Key Skills

• LLMs
• RAG Pipelines
• TypeScript
• Python
• React
• AWS
• Node.js
• AI Evaluation
• Prompt Engineering
• Full-Stack Development

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical direction for AI-enabled products and tooling, transforming AI solutions from beta to scalable production-grade platforms
• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack AI features end-to-end, including backend LLM orchestration, retrieval pipelines, evaluation systems, and frontend user experiences
• Architect and optimize AI workflows focused on model selection, prompting strategies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), latency, safety, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Identify and implement new opportunities to integrate Generative AI into existing software platforms and workflows
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to prioritize features, define MVPs, and balance speed with long-term scalability
• Build and maintain robust backend services and APIs using modern cloud-native technologies
• Establish best practices for AI engineering including observability, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership to engineers working on AI and platform initiatives
• Contribute actively to software architecture discussions and technical decision-making processes
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business challenges into scalable engineering solutions

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing AI-enabled products using LLM APIs and Generative AI technologies
• Proven experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines, prompt workflows, and AI evaluation strategies
• Strong full-stack engineering capabilities across backend services and frontend development
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed programming language such as Go, TypeScript, Java, or C#
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend technologies like Node.js or Python
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and scalable application design
• Experience of working with AWS or other major cloud platforms
• Solid software engineering practices including testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and observability
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially in ambiguous and fast-moving environments
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs related to AI solutions, including build vs. buy decisions and model optimization strategies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience scaling AI products in startup or high-growth environments
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Go, C#, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS
• Experience with AI evaluation infrastructure, LLM guardrails, and observability platforms
• Knowledge of model fine-tuning, ML experimentation, or broader machine learning workflows
• Experience building developer tools, DevOps platforms, CI/CD solutions, or source-control-related products
• Familiarity with industrial automation, manufacturing software, IoT platforms, or operational technology environments
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

About Coforge

At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.

Posted: 06-06-2026