Principal Engineer: AI Platform & Architecture (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the customer onboarding platform. You will drive architectural decisions, lead technical innovations, and mentor a ten-person team while actively coding and delivering SaaS features.

Role focuses on AI integration, modern LLM architectures, and collaboration with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities across the platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience as Staff/Principal/Lead Engineer or similar
• Strong architectural design in cloud-native environments
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams
• Experience partnering with product and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and future product innovation.
• Guide platform evolution balancing speed, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design and code reviews; provide mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI-powered capabilities.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions for customer-managed AI including BYOM/BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and enterprise AI infrastructure patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer with Product/Engineering leadership, CS, and Sales.
• Engage with customers to understand onboarding challenges and build demos.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural design

Stakeholder collaboration

Risk identification

Tools

Go

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the customer onboarding platform. You will drive architectural decisions, lead technical innovations, and mentor a ten-person team while actively coding and delivering SaaS features.

Role focuses on AI integration, modern LLM architectures, and collaboration with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities across the platform.