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RulaRulaLos Angeles, CA

Principal AI Engineer (Remote)

Owns AI foundation for generative AI in mental healthcare, architecting production-grade systems like RAG and agentic loops while ensuring technical excellence and safety in regulated environments. Requires 10+ years software engineering, AI/ML expertise, and cloud/distributed systems experience.

281k – 330k/yr
Remote10+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 7+ years with Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.) and 5+ years designing/scaling distributed systems.
  • 5+ years of deep experience in Python and at least one other backend language (TypeScript, Java, Go, etc.).
  • 2+ years building AI-powered products at scale with foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.).
  • 2+ years of experience with LLM integration patterns such as RAG, agentic loops, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex.
  • 3+ years working with MLOps, data pipelines, evaluation, and observability systems for continuous model improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience architecting secure, compliant AI solutions in regulated environments (HIPAA, GDPR).
  • Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems and clinical decision support frameworks.
  • Experience designing evaluation pipelines for human alignment, factual accuracy, or model interpretability.
  • Contributions to open-source AI frameworks or applied research in GenAI safety.
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams in AI or ML platform domains.

Skills

PythonAWSGCPTypeScriptJavaGoRAGLangChainLlamaindexMLOpsOpenAIAnthropicGemini

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