Senior Principal AI Software Architect

Dayforce; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dayforce is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Developer, AI Experience to lead and scale AI-enabled engineering practices. You will own reusable AI agent skills, contexts, and standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams to operationalize AI-assisted workflows in real codebases.

The role emphasizes architectural thinking, hands-on implementation, and production-grade patterns to enable engineers to ship reliable AI-powered features while maintaining quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems.
• Hands-on with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and testing practices.
• Experience with prompts, retrieval strategies, memory/state patterns.
• Design reusable agent skills with defined contracts and safeguards.
• Ability to define engineering standards, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve reusable skill design patterns and coding artifact standards.
• Define how agent context is structured across repositories and pipelines.
• Design reusable context patterns including prompts and memory strategies.
• Establish guardrails and standards for responsible AI-assisted development.
• Build and maintain reusable AI agent skills, templates, and guides.
• Define production-readiness standards for reusable skills.
• Partner with development teams to operationalize AI-assisted workflows.
• Establish standards for AI engineering artifacts and workflow patterns.
• Define evaluation criteria for scalable AI engineering capabilities.
• Build data-driven visibility into AI-assisted development ROI.
• Define scalable implementation standards for AI engineering adoption.
• Partner with platform teams and vendors on tooling integration.
• Help evolve the AI Engineering enablement operating model.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/LLM tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Context engineering

Documentation

Team collaboration

Tools

LLM tooling

Agentic tools

Job description

Dayforce is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Developer, AI Experience to lead and scale AI-enabled engineering practices. You will own reusable AI agent skills, contexts, and standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams to operationalize AI-assisted workflows in real codebases.

The role emphasizes architectural thinking, hands-on implementation, and production-grade patterns to enable engineers to ship reliable AI-powered features while maintaining quality and governance.