Principal AI Engineer — GenAI, LLMs, & Cloud Architect

Dexian; Covington (KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is building a new AI engineering organization focused on delivering innovative AI solutions that enhance advisor and client experiences. As a Principal Engineer, you will help shape technical direction, drive engineering best practices, and deliver AI-powered solutions from concept to production.

The role requires 8+ years of software experience or 6+ with a Master's, deep AI/LLM know-how, and cloud-scale engineering.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience or a Master's with 6+ years.
• Proven experience designing and delivering scalable, production-grade software solutions and distributed systems.
• Deep expertise building AI-powered applications utilizing large language models (LLMs), agent frameworks, and orchestration platforms.
• Experience developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, semantic search capabilities, and enterprise knowledge systems leveraging vector databases and retrieval frameworks.
• Strong full-stack engineering background with Python, TypeScript, Node.js, APIs, React, and Next.js.
• Hands-on experience deploying and scaling applications within cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with modern platform engineering and DevOps practices, including containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, security, and reliability principles for enterprise-scale applications.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, sound technical judgment, and a passion for building innovative solutions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, data, product, and business teams while driving initiatives from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical direction and engineering best practices for a greenfield AI platform.
• Identify high-value AI use cases and deliver solutions from concept through production.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, architects, data scientists, and engineers to translate capabilities into practical apps.
• Architect and build scalable AI-powered solutions leveraging LLMs and orchestration frameworks.
• Deliver production-ready capabilities that improve advisor productivity and client experiences.

Skills

AI/LLM expertise

RAG and semantic search

Full-stack engineering

Cloud deployment

DevOps & Kubernetes

Software architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Production-grade systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

Bedrock

LangChain

LangGraph

Kubernetes

Job description

Dexian is building a new AI engineering organization focused on delivering innovative AI solutions that enhance advisor and client experiences. As a Principal Engineer, you will help shape technical direction, drive engineering best practices, and deliver AI-powered solutions from concept to production.

The role requires 8+ years of software experience or 6+ with a Master's, deep AI/LLM know-how, and cloud-scale engineering.