Remote Principal Engineer: AI Platform Architect

Eliassen Group; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, drive architectural decisions, and lead AI-enabled innovation while continuing to code daily.

You will partner with Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities across the SaaS platform, mentor teammates, and guide strategic technical direction in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Experience in Staff/Principal/Lead Engineer or equivalent leadership role.
• Strong architectural design experience in cloud-native environments.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and systems.
• Experience partnering with product and business stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Balance technical excellence with business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and 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 and provide technical mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI-powered capabilities.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions supporting customer-managed AI, BYOM/BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and enterprise AI infrastructure patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer partnering with Leadership across teams.
• Engage with customers to understand onboarding challenges and build demos.
• Translate customer requirements into platform capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural design

Cross-functional collaboration

Product alignment

Tools

Go (Golang)

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, drive architectural decisions, and lead AI-enabled innovation while continuing to code daily.

You will partner with Engineering, Product, Customer Success, and Sales to embed AI capabilities across the SaaS platform, mentor teammates, and guide strategic technical direction in a fast-moving environment.