Principal AI Engineer: Scale & Strategy (Remote)

Pragmatike; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Pragmatike is recruiting a Principal AI Engineer to define architecture and technical strategy for highly scalable AI systems. The role requires deep expertise in production AI, distributed architectures, and leadership across senior engineers.

You will lead model serving, optimize workloads, and drive adoption of new AI technologies while aligning AI initiatives with product and infrastructure goals. This remote, full-time position offers a competitive package in the United States.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of AI/ML or software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in production AI systems.
• Strong distributed systems and architecture skills.
• Significant LLM and inference experience.
• Strong technical leadership.
• Proven ability to solve complex AI engineering problems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for large-scale AI systems.
• Lead complex model serving and inference initiatives.
• Optimize AI workloads across performance, quality, and cost.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging AI technologies.
• Establish technical standards across AI engineering.
• Lead high-impact cross-functional AI initiatives.
• Mentor senior and staff AI engineers.
• Influence product and infrastructure strategy.

Skills

AI/ML experience

Distributed systems

LLM & inference

Technical leadership

Architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Pragmatike is recruiting a Principal AI Engineer to define architecture and technical strategy for highly scalable AI systems. The role requires deep expertise in production AI, distributed architectures, and leadership across senior engineers.

You will lead model serving, optimize workloads, and drive adoption of new AI technologies while aligning AI initiatives with product and infrastructure goals. This remote, full-time position offers a competitive package in the United States.