Principal Software Engineer, AI Email Applications, Artificial Intelligence

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $160k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 AI Engineer

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Next Step Systems - National IT Recruiting Firm

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

👥 HR Tech

B2B • HR Tech

Next Step Systems is a national IT recruiting firm that specializes in placing a wide range of information technology professionals in permanent full-time positions across the U. S. Their expertise includes various disciplines such as programmers, software engineers, network engineers, cloud engineers, and SAP specialists. Established in 1995, the company is committed to quality and customer service, continually expanding its capabilities through strategic acquisitions, like the recent one of Parallel Partners, to enhance their service offerings to clients and job seekers.

📋 Description

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop • Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling • Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to real-world product experiences • Lead a small, senior engineering team through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship • Make high-impact trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience • Establish production foundations including observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence • Partner with Machine Learning leadership to turn model capabilities into robust, shippable product experiences • Move quickly while keeping the architecture simple, maintainable, and ready to scale • Ensure production systems are observable, monitored, and stable under real-world load • Improve latency and reliability measurably over time

🎯 Requirements

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience is required • Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems • Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production • Experience building AI-powered products or systems that integrate with modern Machine Learning (ML)/Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities • Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information • Comfortable working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one • A strong bias toward ownership, shipping, and learning from real-world usage • High standards for code quality, reliability, and engineering fundamentals • Must be willing to take a 60-minute coding assessment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Savings plan options • PTO