# Principal AI Engineer (Remote)

**Company:** [Rula](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rula)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $281k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, AWS, GCP, TypeScript, Java, Go, RAG, LangChain, Llamaindex, MLOps, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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