Principal AI Engineer — Cloud Platforms & Agent Tools

Stellent IT LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellent IT LLC is seeking a talented Principal AI Engineer in Dallas to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of AI tooling platforms used by engineers across the company. The role is hands-on with GCP, Vertex AI, Gemini, Claude Code, and related tools to accelerate software development and innovation.

You will mentor teams, own frameworks, and collaborate with product, security, and architecture to align the AI roadmap with business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/engineering/AI
• 7-10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, AI engineering
• Hands-on with cloud-based AI services such as GCP Gemini and Vertex AI
• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot, and React.js knowledge
• Experience with secure REST APIs and OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert and development leader for enterprise AI platforms, agent frameworks, and developer productivity capabilities
• Drive strategic initiatives involving GCP, Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, MCP servers, A2A integrations
• Design the architecture and implementation of reusable AI platform services and integration components
• Integrate and operationalize AI services with cloud, security, and enterprise platforms
• Establish secure, scalable, observable patterns for custom agents and AI tool integrations
• Provide technical leadership, training, and guidance to engineering teams
• Define framework lifecycle practices for versioning, release management, and documentation
• Establish responsible AI, privacy, access control, governance, cost management, and model-risk practices
• Lead observability capabilities for logging, metrics, token utilization, tracing, and health on GCP-hosted services
• Partner with product management, security, architecture, and lines of business to shape the AI platform roadmap
• Mentor junior engineers and lead end-to-end product development and delivery lifecycle

Skills

GCP

Java Spring Boot

React.js

Gemini

Vertex AI

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

MCP Servers

A2A integrations

OAuth 2.0

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Google ADK

LangChain

LangChain4j

MCP servers

Job description

Stellent IT LLC is seeking a talented Principal AI Engineer in Dallas to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of AI tooling platforms used by engineers across the company. The role is hands-on with GCP, Vertex AI, Gemini, Claude Code, and related tools to accelerate software development and innovation.

You will mentor teams, own frameworks, and collaborate with product, security, and architecture to align the AI roadmap with business needs.