Principal Agentic Engineer

Jobot; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO and Holidays

Employer paid medical, dental, vision

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Bi-weekly HSA employer contribution

Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Principal Agentic Engineer in Washington, DC with remote-flexibility to lead the engineering organization building our AI Engagement Agent, a strategic product initiative.

You will champion servant leadership, scale SaaS platforms, mentor Engineering Managers, shape architecture, and partner with Product and Design to deliver high-impact software while reducing friction for frontline teams.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in SaaS product environments.
• Ability to lead engineering teams and mentor managers.
• Strong collaboration with Product, Design, and execs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering org building AI-powered engagement platform.
• Own the engineering roadmap and delivery of high-impact software.
• Participate in architecture reviews across real-time voice and messaging.
• Improve agile practices, CI/CD, and reduce technical debt.
• Manage team capacity and resource allocation.

Skills

Leadership

People management

SaaS

Architectural design

CI/CD

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

Principal Agentic Engineer

$190000 - $250000 per year | Washington, DC | Remote | Permanent

Lead the engineering organization building our AI Engagement Agent—one of our newest and most transformative product initiatives

A bit about us:

This organization takes Public Health and Patient Outcome improvements to the next level, combining the latest and greatest technologies available today to tackle the challenges faced by clinical researchers, patients, and healthcare providers nationwide. The Mission is to make advanced health screenings and research opportunities available to communities across the US and beyond, to build a future health care system that is better and more available to all.

Why join us?

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Company Paid Holidays
• 100% Employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Bi-weekly HSA employer contribution
• Company paid Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) Retirement Plan, with Company Match

Job Details

As the Principal Engineer, you are a people-first leader who is deeply invested in the success of your team and the broader organization. You bring significant leadership and management experience within SaaS product environments, along with an engineering background that enables you to engage confidently in technical discussions without needing to be hands-on in the code every day.

You lead with a servant-leadership mindset, focused on helping your team do their best work, removing obstacles, and creating opportunities for others to grow. You are a highly effective collaborator and communicator who brings curiosity, energy, and a genuine enthusiasm for learning and applying emerging technologies.

Across complex, service-oriented industries, teams often spend significant time on repetitive operational work, including managing communications, answering routine questions, coordinating schedules, and completing standardized outreach and qualification activities.

You will lead an engineering organization responsible for building an AI-powered engagement platform, one of the company’s newest and most strategically important product initiatives. The team is developing an intelligent, voice- and messaging-enabled AI solution designed to manage standardized interactions, coordinate outreach, support scheduling, and automate routine engagement workflows at scale.

The team’s mission is to reduce administrative friction and return valuable time to frontline professionals, allowing them to focus more of their attention on complex, high-value work that requires human expertise and judgment.

How You'll Make an Impact

Configurable Conversational Workflows:

Build flexible, script-driven conversational experiences that can be configured for a variety of use cases and tailored to different user needs, while effectively guiding individuals toward defined interaction goals.

Intelligent Logistics & Orchestration:

Develop a resilient orchestration engine capable of balancing multiple operational variables, including appropriate contact windows, local time zones, operating hours, interaction outcomes, and adaptive retry strategies to improve engagement while maintaining established best practices.

Delivery & Roadmap Execution:

Own execution of the engineering roadmap for the AI-powered engagement platform. Partner closely with Product and Design to translate complex business requirements into intuitive conversational workflows and deliver reliable, high-impact software.

Hands-on Architectural Guidance:

Participate actively in architecture and design reviews spanning real-time voice, messaging, workflow orchestration, and data pipelines. Help ensure the team builds a scalable, highly available platform while thoughtfully managing technical debt.

Sprint & Capacity Management:

Balance new feature development with platform reliability and long-term maintainability. Manage team capacity, resource allocation, and technical debt to keep critical product initiatives moving forward.

Agile Process Optimization:

Continually improve agile practices and CI/CD processes across the team. Identify and remove delivery bottlenecks to create an efficient, sustainable, and high-velocity engineering environment.

Leadership, Management & Mentorship:

Manage, coach, and develop Engineering Managers and technical leaders. Establish consistent one-on-one rhythms, support meaningful career-development plans, and help attract and recruit exceptional engineering talent as the organization grows.

Team Health & Culture:

Create an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative engineering culture where people feel empowered to make decisions, understand how their work contributes to the broader mission, and are motivated by the real-world impact of the products they build.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Serve as a key technical partner across the organization. Translate complex concepts involving AI, platform architecture, telemetry, and engineering operations into clear, actionable information for executive leaders and non-technical stakeholders.

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.