AI-First Principal Engineer: Lead GenAI Apps

Object Computing, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Object Computing, Inc. in St. Louis is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead AI-powered development across discovery, rollout, proof of concept, and production builds.

This is a hands-on, AI-first role. You build with GenAI every day and assess AI outputs while maintaining production stability. You will shape rollout plans with client executives, quickly build proofs, and direct architecture, testing, security, and IaC for production deployments in client clouds.

Qualifications

• GenAI tools used to build working business apps.
• Two live production systems, ideally in regulated industries.
• Strong architectural depth across development, data engineering, and cloud.
• Experience with large language models beyond demos: retrieval, evaluation, agents, or tool use.
• Excellent communication and leadership when dealing with executives.

Responsibilities

• Run lightweight discovery across a client's core business processes and platforms: finance, HR, customer, productivity, and the data underneath.
• Shape a company-wide AI rollout plan with the client's executives and agree on what to tackle first.
• Build the proof of concept yourself, quickly, to show what custom AI-powered apps can do.
• Lead the follow-on build: set the architecture, hold the bar on testing, security, and infrastructure as code, and ship to production in the client's cloud.
• Unblock the team, improve how it works, and coach the OCI engineers on the engagement.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for the client sponsor, and bring what you learn back to OCI.

Skills

GenAI coding tools

Architectural depth

Production track record

Real LLM experience

Business fluency

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Claude

Azure OpenAI

Python

TypeScript

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Object Computing, Inc. in St. Louis is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead AI-powered development across discovery, rollout, proof of concept, and production builds.

This is a hands-on, AI-first role. You build with GenAI every day and assess AI outputs while maintaining production stability. You will shape rollout plans with client executives, quickly build proofs, and direct architecture, testing, security, and IaC for production deployments in client clouds.