Remote Part-Time Principal AI Engineer (Agentic AI)

FullStack; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 110,000 - 179,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Paid Time Off

100% remote work

Work with startups & Fortune 500

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with 4% match

Career advancement opportunities

Continuing education opportunities

Job summary

FullStack seeks a Part-time Principal AI Engineer (Agentic AI) / Tech Lead to join our team. You’ll work with top clients either as team augmentation or on a design-and-build basis, contributing to production-grade AI systems and complex architectures.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering and strong leadership, with a focus on agentic AI, LLMs, and API integrations. Remote work is supported, with 20+ hours weekly overlap with PT time.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams and shaping technical roadmaps.
• Advanced English is required.
• Successful completion of a four-year college degree is required.
• Expertise in designing and shipping production-grade agentic AI applications and complex LLM architectures.
• Has integrated LLM provider APIs, autonomous agent frameworks, and custom tool-calling mechanisms into software products.
• Track record of acting as a technical liaison, interfacing with clients/stakeholders to scope technical work and own end-to-end delivery.
• Solid background in system architecture, distributed systems, and modern API integrations.
• Has owned CI/CD deployment pipelines, automated testing, and failure/retry strategies for AI workflows.
• Availability to work 20+ hours per week overlapping with US Pacific Time (PT) business hours.
• Ability to work through new and difficult issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of applications.
• Forensic attention to detail.
• A positive mindset and a can-do attitude.
• Experience working on Agile/Scrum teams.
• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work.

Skills

8+ yrs exp

Team leadership

Advanced English

Four-year degree

Agentic AI & LLM design

LLM APIs & tool-calling

Client liaison

System architecture

CI/CD & testing

PT overlap 20+ hrs

Agile/Scrum

Ownership & accountability

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

CI/CD tooling

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Tool-calling mechanisms

Job description

FullStack seeks a Part-time Principal AI Engineer (Agentic AI) / Tech Lead to join our team. You’ll work with top clients either as team augmentation or on a design-and-build basis, contributing to production-grade AI systems and complex architectures.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering and strong leadership, with a focus on agentic AI, LLMs, and API integrations. Remote work is supported, with 20+ hours weekly overlap with PT time.