Remote Principal Engineer — AI Platform Architect

Eliassen Group; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits,

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. You will code daily, influence product strategy, and collaborate with engineering, product, customer success, and sales to embed AI capabilities across the platform.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud‑native design, and the ability to balance speed with long‑term maintainability in a fast‑moving

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience on production SaaS platforms.
• Experience in staff/principal/lead engineering or equivalent leadership.
• Strong cloud-native architecture and design experience.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with Product and business stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Proficient with Go, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes and cloud-native systems.
• Experience with AI/LLM integration and enterprise AI platforms is a plus.
• Strong product-thinking and customer-outcome focus.

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

AI/LLM integration

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vector databases

API platform design

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands‑on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, drive architectural decisions, and lead AI-enabled innovation. You will code daily, influence product strategy, and collaborate with engineering, product, customer success, and sales to embed AI capabilities across the platform.

The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud‑native design, and the ability to balance speed with long‑term maintainability in a fast‑moving