Principal Tech Software Engineer AI - Agentic AI

Philip Morris International; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 295,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life and Health insurance

Employee Pension Plan

26 holiday days

National and international growthOppt.

Diverse and international work环境

Job summary

Philip Morris International is seeking a principal-level AI Delivery & Engineering leader to set engineering standards for reusable AI capabilities across its enterprise. The role focuses on secure, reliable, and scalable agentic AI, with responsibilities spanning architecture reviews, tool contracts, and partner guidance across Poland and Portugal.

You'll drive safe, traceable agent behavior, oversee authorization and human oversight, and coordinate with Quality & Testing for observability and

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or related.
• Enterprise software eng in cloud-native and distributed systems.
• Hands-on enterprise AI engineering incl. architecture and integrations.
• Deep knowledge of agentic AI orchestration and tooling.
• Experience with agent and tool contracts and interoperability.
• Knowledge of context, memory, grounding, authorization and oversight.
• Observability, AI evaluation and failure analysis.
• Secure software development, CI/CD, testing and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Define standards for agent and tool contracts, orchestration, state and memory.
• Review supplier architectures, code, configurations and evidence.
• Guide partners on agents, reusable assets and justified development.
• Set expectations for action authorization, human approval, safe stopping.
• Partner with Quality and Testing on behavior, grounding and traces.
• Review operational readiness, observability and recovery handover.

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

Distributed systems

Enterprise AI engineering

Agentic AI orchestration

Authorization and oversight

Observability

Secure software development

CI/CD practices

Mentoring & documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Location: Lisbon, Portugal / Krakow, Poland

Working Pattern: Fully Remote (Portugal) ; Hybrid (Poland)

Join our AI Delivery & Engineering team and provide principal-level technical leadership for reusable enterprise AI capabilities. You'll help ensure that agentic AI solutions are secure, reliable and scalable while advancing PMI's smoke-free future.

Impact You'll Own

• Define engineering standards for reusable agentic AI capabilities, improving interoperability, reliability and maintainability.
• Strengthen solution quality through architecture, code, configuration and evidence reviews.
• Guide decisions on agent versus workflow design, asset reuse and appropriate autonomy levels.
• Advance safe, traceable agent behavior through authorization, human oversight, recovery and evaluation.

What You'll Do

• Defining standards for agent and tool contracts, orchestration, state, context, memory, grounding and bounded autonomy.
• Review supplier architectures, code, configurations, tool interfaces and engineering evidence.
• Guide partners on agents, simpler workflows, reusable assets and justified new development.
• Set expectations for action authorization, human approval, safe stopping and recovery.
• Partner with Quality and Testing to assess behavior, grounding, regressions and traces.
• Review operational readiness, including observability, dependencies, recovery and support handover.

Skills And Capabilities

Must-haves

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• Enterprise software engineering experience in cloud-native and distributed systems.
• Hands-on enterprise AI engineering experience, including architecture, code, integrations and readiness review.
• Deep knowledge of agentic AI orchestration, bounded autonomy and enterprise tool integration.
• Experience with agent and tool contracts, interoperability, workflow composition and dependencies.
• Knowledge of context, memory, retrieval and grounding, authorization and human oversight.
• Experience with observability, AI evaluation and realistic failure analysis.
• Strong secure software development, CI/CD, testing and reliability foundations.
• Proven technical leadership through standards, reviews and supplier assurance.
• Strong communication, cross-team influence, mentoring and documentation skills.

Nice-to-have

• Advanced study in AI/ML, distributed systems or cloud/platform engineering.

Rewards and Benefits

• Life and Health insurance
• Employee Pension Plan
• 26 holiday days
• National and international growth opportunities
• Diverse and international work environment

For Poland: no less than 327660 PLN gross per year.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us stronger. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels welcomed, respected, valued, and empowered to reach their full potential.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and provide reasonable accommodations to ensure an accessible recruitment process. If you need support or adjustments during your application, let us know. We're here to help you succeed.

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