Principal AI Engineer

Insight Global; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Principal AI Engineer in Hyderabad (Hybrid) to lead AI-powered platform modernization, API design, and scalable enterprise solutions. You will guide architecture, drive standardization, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align AI strategy with business goals.

The role emphasizes building reusable AI tools and workflows that integrate with CI/CD and security pipelines, enabling scalable AI-assisted development at enterprise

Qualifications

• Strong backend, distributed systems, and platform architecture expertise.
• Experience building scalable APIs and enterprise applications.
• Experience modernizing large-scale or legacy platforms.
• Deep understanding of API design, authentication/authorization, versioning, observability, and schema management.
• Experience designing resilient, highly scalable systems that support high-concurrency workloads.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable AI-powered software platforms and enterprise APIs.
• Build solutions that integrate data from CI/CD pipelines and engineering systems.
• Develop AI-assisted workflows for code review, change analysis, release management, planning, remediation, and validation.
• Modernize legacy applications and mission-critical platforms.
• Define architectural standards, governance, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence technical strategy across the organization.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead architectural design reviews.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Leadership

Stakeholder management

High concurrency

Tools

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

GraphQL

Job description

Position: Principal AI Engineer

Location: Hyderabad (2-3 days onsite)

About the Role

As a Principal AI Engineer, you will lead the modernization of enterprise engineering platforms by designing, building, and scaling AI-powered solutions that enhance the software development lifecycle. You will be responsible for creating reusable AI tools, APIs, workflows, and infrastructure that enable engineering teams to adopt AI-assisted development practices efficiently and at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable AI-powered software platforms and enterprise APIs.
• Build solutions that integrate data from CI/CD pipelines, deployments, security scans, source control, work tracking, and other engineering systems.
• Develop AI-assisted workflows for code review, change analysis, release management, planning, remediation, and validation.
• Modernize legacy applications and mission-critical platforms.
• Define architectural standards, governance, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence technical strategy across the organization.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead architectural design reviews.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and platform architecture.
• Experience building and scaling complex APIs and enterprise applications.
• Proven experience modernizing large-scale or legacy platforms.
• Deep understanding of API design, authentication, authorization, versioning, observability, and schema management.
• Experience designing resilient, highly scalable systems supporting high-concurrency workloads.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, or similar API frameworks.
• Exposure to AI/LLM integrations, AI agents, orchestration platforms, or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Experience with workflow orchestration, event-driven architecture, and distributed platforms.
• Background in enterprise modernization initiatives and engineering governance.
• Experience building highly observable and resilient systems.

Location: Hyderabad, India (Hybrid)