Principal AI Engineer

Cotiviti; Mexico; On-site; PHP 1,004,400 - 1,339,200; Full time

Job summary

Cotiviti is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design and maintain a cutting-edge AI platform. This role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure platform reliability and data integration.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, particularly in AI/ML platforms, and be proficient in Python and containerization technologies. Cloud platform experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years on AI/ML platforms or infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks.
• Experience with building large-scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable agentic solutions for diverse use cases.
• Optimize performance of AI-powered workloads across compute and storage layers.
• Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML platforms

Python programming

Building distributed systems

Agentic AI frameworks

Containerization

MLOps tools

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

MLflow

Kubeflow

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Databricks

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

Overview

Cotiviti is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, and maintain a cutting-edge agentic framework and centralized AI platform that will serve as the backbone of our organization's AI initiatives. This role will be responsible for creating a unified interface that enables teams across the company to securely deploy, manage, and access AI agents while ensuring seamless data integration and platform reliability. The role will work closely with Data Scientists, MLOps engineers, Data Engineers, and Product Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable agentic solutions for diverse use cases
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source AI technologies to build and maintain a centralized AI platform with unified APIs for cross-functional team access and build various types of agents
• Work with Product Engineers to integrate AI agents into customer-facing applications and internal tools
• Lead technical discussions, mentor junior engineers, and help set the technical vision for the AI platform roadmap.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements across the software development lifecycle.
• Optimize performance of AI-powered workloads across compute and storage layers using cloud-native and open-source solutions.
• Conduct performance analysis and capacity planning to ensure platform scalability

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years working on AI/ML platforms or infrastructure.
• Experience in building large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of MLOps tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Databricks
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).