Remote Principal AI Engineer for Enterprise ML Platform

Motion Recruitment; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Principal AI Engineer to join a rapidly growing AI, cloud, and data platform company. The role is fully remote for CT residents, leading ML operations, AI infrastructure, and platform engineering across enterprise-grade systems.

You will define technical strategy for generative AI, orchestrate LLM deployment, and oversee secure, scalable back-end services on AWS. Collaboration across teams and mentoring engineers are essential to success.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong track record designing and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience serving as a technical lead, architect, principal engineer, or similar senior-level contributor.
• Extensive experience developing and operating AI/ML platforms in production environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale.
• Deep understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, vector search, prompt management, and AI orchestration.
• Expert-level Python and TypeScript development skills.
• Experience building secure, scalable APIs and backend services.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and containerized workloads.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation, CDK, or comparable frameworks.
• Understanding of CI/CD methodologies and automation practices.
• Expertise implementing observability solutions including monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Experience securing multi-tenant platforms and managing sensitive data requirements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions for enterprise AI and machine learning platforms.
• Design and evolve infrastructure supporting model deployment, governance, and scalability.
• Build solutions for both real-time inference and large-scale batch processing workloads.
• Define standards for model lifecycle management, versioning, promotion, and rollback.
• Create secure frameworks for AI systems operating across multi-tenant environments.
• Develop processes that ensure AI outputs meet quality, performance, and reliability objectives.
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions for production AI systems.
• Drive improvements in system performance, resiliency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data teams, and security stakeholders on platform initiatives.
• Establish best practices for AI engineering, architecture, and deployment.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers across multiple teams.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend strategic adoption opportunities.
• Support infrastructure automation and cloud-native deployment processes.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI/ML platforms

LLMs at scale

Python

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Multi-tenant

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Principal AI Engineer to join a rapidly growing AI, cloud, and data platform company. The role is fully remote for CT residents, leading ML operations, AI infrastructure, and platform engineering across enterprise-grade systems.

You will define technical strategy for generative AI, orchestrate LLM deployment, and oversee secure, scalable back-end services on AWS. Collaboration across teams and mentoring engineers are essential to success.