Principal AI Engineering Lead — Hands-On

Acclime; Jakarta Selatan; On-site; IDR 420,000,000 - 740,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Acclime seeks a hands-on Principal AI Engineering Lead to drive transformation across its Indonesian tech team, delivering scalable AI engineering practices and end-to-end automation on Aura platform.

You will code, review, design solutions, mentor developers, and translate business processes into working software while bridging analysts and engineers. This role emphasizes security, quality, governance, and operating model changes to raise team maturity across 18 APAC markets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a technical lead or engineering manager role where you continued coding.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale AI engineering initiatives, including AI solution design, experimentation, evaluation, integration, deployment, and support.
• Strong full-stack development skills across backend, APIs, and frontend as needed.
• Strong governance experience covering secure SDLC, code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, and release readiness.
• Working knowledge of AI/ML integration — prompt engineering, API orchestration, document AI/OCR, embedding models.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and GCP preferred).
• Track record translating business processes into technical solutions in a services/enterprise context.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and grow development teams (4–10 people).
• Strong communication skills — able to explain technical concepts to business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on technical leadership; write and review code, set standards, and guide delivery.
• Translate business processes into technical specifications and system designs.
• Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and decision records.
• Coach engineers through change, uplift engineering maturity, and improve delivery discipline.
• Partner with DevSecOps, QA, Product, and PM to improve release governance and reliability.
• Present progress and risks to non-technical stakeholders; support multi-market deployments.

Skills

Software engineering

AI engineering leadership

Full-stack development

Governance & SDLC

AI/ML integration

Cloud platforms (Azure & GCP)

Team scaling (4-10)

Communication skills

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Documentation tools

Job description

Acclime seeks a hands-on Principal AI Engineering Lead to drive transformation across its Indonesian tech team, delivering scalable AI engineering practices and end-to-end automation on Aura platform.

You will code, review, design solutions, mentor developers, and translate business processes into working software while bridging analysts and engineers. This role emphasizes security, quality, governance, and operating model changes to raise team maturity across 18 APAC markets.