Principal AI-Native Engineer – Production-Grade AI Apps

AT&T; Middletown (NJ); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer to drive production-grade AI-enabled applications in Middletown, NJ. You will pair with business teams to translate ambiguous problems into robust designs, building secure, observable systems and scalable Python services with REST APIs.

You will develop agentic workflows, integrate with enterprise platforms, and apply RAG and grounding techniques, while delivering in a two-in-a-box collaboration model with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production applications.
• Strong Python development experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Hands-on experience designing REST APIs and backend/microservice architectures.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD in cloud or enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases; NoSQL is a plus.
• Experience integrating LLMs or Generative AI into software.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade AI-enabled applications, backend services, and REST APIs.
• Create agentic AI workflows using LangGraph or similar frameworks.
• Collaborate in a 2-in-a-box model to translate business challenges into technical designs.
• Integrate AI applications securely with enterprise APIs, databases, and event streams.
• Define tool and service contracts with validation, retries, and access controls.
• Develop evaluation strategies, testing, and release gates for AI systems.
• Implement RAG, vector search, grounding, and context engineering when appropriate.
• Build end-to-end solutions across backend, databases, and front-end using Angular.
• Apply secure-by-design practices and build observability with logging and tracing.
• Enable CI/CD, Docker deployment, and resilient distributed-system patterns.

Skills

Python

Python web frameworks

REST APIs

Docker

CI/CD

LLMs / Generative AI

Agent workflows

Security

Observability

Angular

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE or related

Tools

LangGraph

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer to drive production-grade AI-enabled applications in Middletown, NJ. You will pair with business teams to translate ambiguous problems into robust designs, building secure, observable systems and scalable Python services with REST APIs.

You will develop agentic workflows, integrate with enterprise platforms, and apply RAG and grounding techniques, while delivering in a two-in-a-box collaboration model with stakeholders.