Principal AI Systems Engineer - Agentic Governance

ServiceNow

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 216,100 - 378,200

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health plans
401(k) Plan with company match
ESP P
Matching donations
Flexible time away plan
Family leave programs

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems to lead architecture for enterprise-scale AI governance, agent orchestration, and secure, observable AI platforms. You will drive cross‑domain decisions and mentor senior engineers while shaping the future of AI-enabled tooling.

You will define a scalable developer experience and guardrails, ensuring reliability and security across planning, coding, testing, deployment, and operations in ServiceNow's AI initiatives.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with senior scope
  • Hands-on expertise in agentic AI and large language models
  • Experience architecting enterprise-scale cloud and developer platforms
  • Proven track record transforming engineering organizations
  • Strong cross-domain judgment and executive communication

Responsibilities

  • Define multi-year architecture for AI Control Tower and agent governance
  • Establish AI-forward developer experience with guardrails
  • Define reliability, incident response, auditability standards
  • Coordinate across AI engineering, data/ML, infrastructure, product, and security
  • Transform Customer Zero experience into structured product feedback
  • Prototype multi-agent patterns and publish reference architectures
  • Mentor senior engineers and raise hiring standards

Skills

Agentic AI
LLM‑based systems
Multi-agent orchestration
LLMOps/MLOps
AI governance & security
Enterprise-scale cloud platforms
DevOps/CI‑CD automation
Executive communication

Tools

ServiceNow ITSM
GRC platforms

Job description

ServiceNow is seeking a Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems to lead architecture for enterprise-scale AI governance, agent orchestration, and secure, observable AI platforms. You will drive cross‑domain decisions and mentor senior engineers while shaping the future of AI-enabled tooling.

You will define a scalable developer experience and guardrails, ensuring reliability and security across planning, coding, testing, deployment, and operations in ServiceNow's AI initiatives.

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