Principal AI Engineer — Remote, Architecture & Strategy

Morson Edge; Stretford; Remote; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first

Occasional client on-site visits

Job summary

Morson Edge is seeking a Principal Engineer to join a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering. You will be the go-to technical expert on client projects, responsible for architecture, technical direction and raising the level of engineers around you.

You will deal with stakeholders up to CTO and CEO level, framing technical decisions in business terms and calling out when problems aren’t purely technical.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
• Proficiency in cloud environments with cost and security awareness; IaC experience.
• Knowledge of data pipelines, vector stores and embeddings.
• Hands-on AI-enabled engineering, using agents and evals.
• Strong consulting skills and ability to manage stakeholders up to CTO/CEO level.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical direction and architectural decisions on client projects.
• Mentor engineers to raise AI fluency and engineering quality.
• Frame technical decisions in business terms and communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Deliver pragmatic, value-driven solutions with a bias for action and iteration.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud & IaC

Data pipelines & embeddings

AI-assisted engineering

Consulting & stakeholder management

Job description

Morson Edge is seeking a Principal Engineer to join a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering. You will be the go-to technical expert on client projects, responsible for architecture, technical direction and raising the level of engineers around you.

You will deal with stakeholders up to CTO and CEO level, framing technical decisions in business terms and calling out when problems aren’t purely technical.