Contract Need Only Local Candidates Principal AI Engineer This is a unique Greenfield opportunity to help build a brand-new AI engineering organization focused on delivering innovative AI solutions that enhance the advisor and client experience. The team's mission is to leverage artificial intelligence, automation, advanced analytics, and large language models (LLMs) to tackle real business problems, streamline advisor workflows, reduce administrative overhead, and help advisors spend more time delivering value to clients. The Expertise You Bring As an early member of this organization, you will play a key role in shaping technical direction, influencing engineering best practices, and delivering AI-powered solutions from concept through production. This position offers the opportunity to work directly with business leaders, product teams, architects, data scientists, and engineers to identify high-value use cases and build secure, scalable, enterprise-grade AI capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes. This role is ideal for a hands-on Principal Engineer who thrives at the intersection of AI, data engineering, cloud architecture, and product innovation. Successful candidates will possess the technical depth to architect and build complex solutions while also working closely with business stakeholders to translate emerging AI capabilities into practical applications. Example Use Cases Representative initiatives may include developing AI-powered capabilities that improve advisor effectiveness and client engagement, such as: Automated meeting preparation and research Intelligent call summarization and insight generation Automated follow-up and workflow orchestration Knowledge retrieval and recommendation systems AI-assisted decision support and productivity tools Workflow automation leveraging enterprise data sources and communication channels
The Skills You Bring:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years of software engineering experience, or a Master's degree with 6+ years of experience. Proven experience designing and delivering scalable, production-grade software solutions and distributed systems. Strong experience using LLMs and Generative AI technologies to solve real business challenges Strong full-stack engineering background with modern languages and frameworks such as Python, TypeScript, Node.js, APIs, React, and Next.js. Hands-on experience deploying and scaling applications within cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Experience with modern platform engineering and DevOps practices, including containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud-native architectures. Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, security, and reliability principles for enterprise-scale applications. Excellent problem-solving skills, sound technical judgment, and a passion for building innovative solutions. Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, data, product, and business teams while driving initiatives from concept to production. Top 4
Areas of Expertise:
AI & LLM
Engineering (25%) Experience leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve business problems Strong understanding of prompt engineering, prompt management, and GenAI solution design Experience working with GenAI developer tools such as: GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Claude Familiarity with AI strategy, implementation, and scaling AI-driven solutions Backend & Full Stack Engineering (25%) Strong backend engineering background (role is heavily backend-focused) Hands on experience with programming languages such as Java, Node.js, Python Familiarity with modern web application architectures API design, development, and integration expertise Data Platform Engineering (25%) Strong data engineering experience Experience with data pipelines, data stores, orchestration frameworks, and distributed systems Understanding of machine learning workflows and AI-enabled applications Experience deploying and scaling AI/ML solutions in production environments Cloud Architecture, Scale & Security (25%) Cloud-native development experience Kubernetes and containerized application deployment Experience with deployment patterns and scalable system design
