Senior Principal Engineer, AI Strategy & Scale (Remote)

Dropbox; United States; Remote; USD 285,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

Dropbox is seeking a Principal Engineer in AI Strategy & Growth. You will own company-critical technical problems, define long-term AI-enabled direction, and stay hands-on where leverage is highest.

You’ll influence product, architecture, and engineering across multiple teams and platforms used by hundreds of millions of users. You will drive AI adoption, set high engineering standards, and partner with senior leaders to shape Dropbox’s AI roadmap in a distributed, virtual environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale software systems with sustained impact across multiple teams or organizations.
• Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level, owning company-critical technical problems and influencing long-term technical direction.
• Strong experience building consumer-facing products at scale with focus on UX, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Broad and deep technical expertise across frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Practical experience applying modern ML, LLM-based APIs, and agentic frameworks in production systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering impact at scale.
• Define long-term technical strategy and partner with senior leaders as technical owner for key objectives.
• tackle ambiguous technical and product problems and shape what and how the company builds.
• Remain deeply hands-on in software development, owning critical foundational parts of the system.
• Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving bottlenecks and improving operations.
• Architect and evolve foundational systems enabling new product capabilities at scale.
• Model exceptional technical judgment and execution rigor across a virtual environment.
• Drive AI adoption to increase productivity and deliver AI-based features.

Skills

Frontend systems

Mobile architectures

Search

Databases

Storage systems

Concurrency

Distributed systems

ML/LLM APIs

Agentic frameworks

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent industry experience

Job description

Dropbox is seeking a Principal Engineer in AI Strategy & Growth. You will own company-critical technical problems, define long-term AI-enabled direction, and stay hands-on where leverage is highest.

You’ll influence product, architecture, and engineering across multiple teams and platforms used by hundreds of millions of users. You will drive AI adoption, set high engineering standards, and partner with senior leaders to shape Dropbox’s AI roadmap in a distributed, virtual environment.