AI-First Principal Engineer | Architecture & Leadership

Morson Edge (Technology); England; Remote; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Edge (Technology) is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction on client projects. You will mentor teams, drive AI fluency, and align technical decisions with business outcomes in a remote-first consultancy.

You’ll interact with CTO/CEO level stakeholders, set the tone for delivery, and shape the use of AI and context engineering across engagements with major enterprises and scale-ups.

Qualifications

• Senior/lead level experience in complex software projects.
• Technical leadership on client engagements with architectural responsibility.
• Comfort translating technical tradeoffs into business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and technical direction across client projects.
• Mentor engineers to raise AI fluency and quality of work.
• Collaborate with CTO/CEO level stakeholders, framing decisions in business terms.
• Drive AI-centric delivery, context engineering and tool selection.
• Promote pragmatic, delivery-focused culture and iterative delivery.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

IaC

Data pipelines

Vector stores

Embeddings

Consulting

Stakeholder management

Java

Node.js

.NET

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Morson Edge (Technology) is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead architecture and technical direction on client projects. You will mentor teams, drive AI fluency, and align technical decisions with business outcomes in a remote-first consultancy.

You’ll interact with CTO/CEO level stakeholders, set the tone for delivery, and shape the use of AI and context engineering across engagements with major enterprises and scale-ups.