Principal AI Platform Architect (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer for a remote contract-to-hire engagement to shape the onboarding platform. You will drive architectural decisions, lead technical innovation, and write production code daily while collaborating with product, customer success, and sales teams.

The role focuses on embedding AI capabilities across the platform, evaluating new technologies, and guiding the team through scalability, security, and maintainability challenges.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in production SaaS.
• Experience in staff/principal or similar leadership role.
• Strong cloud-native architecture experience.
• Ability to influence across teams and products.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and future product innovation.
• Guide platform evolution while balancing speed, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute directly to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation efforts for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and provide technical mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI-powered capabilities using modern LLM architectures.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions supporting customer-managed AI, including BYOM and BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including MCP architectures, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer and partner closely with Product Leadership, Engineering Leadership, Customer Success, and Sales.
• Engage with customers to understand onboarding challenges and build demonstrations and prototypes.
• Translate customer requirements into platform capabilities and support strategic initiatives.

Skills

Go

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

AI integration

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer for a remote contract-to-hire engagement to shape the onboarding platform. You will drive architectural decisions, lead technical innovation, and write production code daily while collaborating with product, customer success, and sales teams.

The role focuses on embedding AI capabilities across the platform, evaluating new technologies, and guiding the team through scalability, security, and maintainability challenges.