Remote Principal AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Platform Lead

Kelly Services; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 180,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead architectural decisions for enterprise AI platforms. This fully remote role is open to candidates in Connecticut, offering substantial ownership of AI infrastructure, deployment, and governance.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in software or cloud, hands-on LLM deployment, and strong Python/TypeScript skills, with a track record of driving scalable AI systems in production.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering or cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience leading architectural decisions and technical direction.
• Production experience with AI/ML platforms.
• Hands-on LLM deployment at scale.
• Strong AWS and containerized workloads knowledge.
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with CI/CD and automation.
• Solid observability and monitoring understanding.
• Secure, multi-tenant platform experience.
• Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions for enterprise AI platforms.
• Design infrastructure for model deployment, governance, and scalability.
• Build real-time and batch processing workloads.
• Define model lifecycle standards (versioning, promotion, rollback).
• Create secure multi-tenant AI frameworks.
• Ensure AI outputs meet quality and reliability goals.
• Implement production monitoring and observability for AI systems.
• Improve system performance, resiliency, and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineers, data teams, and security stakeholders.
• Establish best practices for AI engineering and deployment.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and adoption opportunities.
• Support infrastructure automation and cloud-native deployment.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Distributed systems

Technical lead/architect

AI/ML platforms

LLMs deployment

RAG & vector search

Python & TypeScript

APIs & backend

AWS & containers

IaC (CloudFormation/CDK)

CI/CD automation

Observability

Security multi-tenant

Communication

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead architectural decisions for enterprise AI platforms. This fully remote role is open to candidates in Connecticut, offering substantial ownership of AI infrastructure, deployment, and governance.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years in software or cloud, hands-on LLM deployment, and strong Python/TypeScript skills, with a track record of driving scalable AI systems in production.