Remote Principal Engineer: AI Platform Architect

Eliassen Group; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the future of its customer onboarding platform while remaining deeply engaged in daily coding. You will drive architectural decisions, lead technical innovation, and partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes a strong product voice, collaboration, and delivering proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases in a remote environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production SaaS platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and future product innovation.
• Guide platform evolution while balancing speed, simplicity, and long‑term maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute directly to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation efforts for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and provide technical mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI-powered capabilities using modern LLM architectures.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions supporting customer-managed AI, including BYOM and BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including MCP architectures, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer and partner closely with Product Leadership, Engineering Leadership, Customer Success, and Sales.
• Engage with customers to understand onboarding challenges and build demonstrations and prototypes.
• Translate customer requirements into platform capabilities and support strategic initiatives.

Skills

Go

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

AI/LLM integration

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vector databases

API platform design

Salesforce integrations

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Salesforce integrations

Vector databases

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the future of its customer onboarding platform while remaining deeply engaged in daily coding. You will drive architectural decisions, lead technical innovation, and partner across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes a strong product voice, collaboration, and delivering proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases in a remote environment.