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Principal AI-Native Engineer

AIS

Remote · US$195k – $210k

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About this role

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. • Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

  What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.   Working@AIS

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Software Architect.
 • Core Knowledge & Skills: Operates as a multi-domain subject matter expert (e.g., Security, Data) with industry depth, defines enterprise patterns, and guides adoption across solutions.

• Work & Complexity: Plans and directs the most complex, cross-functional, mission-critical initiatives, and evaluates industry standards to drive innovation and intellectual property.

• Quality & Independence: Acts independently with organization-wide influence, sets visionary bars for quality, reliability, and delivery practices.

• Teamwork & Communication: Models company values, mentors across the organization, builds formal networks with decision makers, and serves as an external spokesperson.

• Consulting & Engagement: Advises executives on strategy, steers long-range planning and new lines of business, and delivers thought-leading presentations at the highest technical level.


As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Principal AI-Native Engineer.

 Project Summary The Principal AI-Native Engineer serves as the organization's highest-level hands-on engineering leader for AI-enabled software delivery. This role combines deep expertise in software architecture, cloud engineering, AI-native development practices, platform engineering, and technical leadership. The individual will design and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, establish AI-first engineering standards, mentor engineering teams, and drive adoption of modern Azure and GitHub development ecosystems. The role requires a unique blend of visionary thinking and hands-on execution, with accountability for delivering secure, observable, testable, and maintainable solutions throughout the software lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex software solutions.

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical specifications and solution designs.

• Drive engineering practices across development, testing, deployment, observability, and operations.

• Provide technical leadership for engineering teams and serve as a trusted advisor for solution strategy and delivery.

AI-Native Software Engineering • Leverage AI-assisted development tools and AI-native engineering methodologies to accelerate software delivery.

• Define and implement effective guardrails, review mechanisms, and quality controls for AI-generated code.

• Establish engineering workflows that maximize developer productivity through intelligent automation.

• Evaluate emerging AI engineering capabilities and continuously evolve development practices.

Software Design Excellence • Design maintainable, extensible, and resilient systems with long-term sustainability in mind.

• Apply test-driven and quality-driven engineering methodologies.

• Ensure solutions are secure, observable, scalable, and operationally efficient.

• Make architecture and design decisions based on product lifecycle thinking and operational outcomes.

Engineering Quality & Verification • Lead code review practices and engineering quality initiatives.

• Define and implement comprehensive testing strategies, including automated testing and acceptance testing methodologies.

• Establish standards for deployment validation, monitoring, and production readiness.

• Promote engineering accountability throughout the software lifecycle.

Platform & Technology Enablement • Drive adoption of modern development and cloud platforms.

• Guide teams in leveraging GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and cloud engineering capabilities.

• Collaborate with platform teams to optimize developer experience, security, governance, and operational efficiency.

• Support integration of AI platforms and services into enterprise software development workflows.

Talent Development & Mentorship • Mentor engineers, technical leads, and architects on engineering design principles and AI-native development practices.

• Coach teams on effective system design, testing strategies, and software craftsmanship.

• Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellence.

• Help identify and develop future technical leaders within the organization.

Required For This Opportunity

Experience • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications.

• Demonstrated ownership of software products throughout their lifecycle, including ongoing operational responsibility.

• Extensive experience leading engineering teams and technical initiatives.

Technical Expertise • Strong expertise in so

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