Principal AI Engineer

The role

The Principal Applied AI Engineer will set the technical vision for agentic AI systems across the product portfolio. This role involves shaping multi-year infrastructure strategy, setting engineering standards, and writing code to solve hard technical problems.

What you will do

• Define the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for agentic workflow infrastructure.
• Represent applied AI engineering in cross-functional and leadership-level decisions.
• Set org-wide engineering standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring.
• Act as a technical escalation point for high-ambiguity problems.
• Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers.
• Help shape the technical career ladder for applied AI roles.
• Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and techniques.
• Partner with founders and engineering leadership on AI infrastructure investment.

Required qualifications

• Deep software engineering foundation (Python required)
• 8+ years building production software
• 4+ years building and scaling AI-powered/LLM-driven applications in production
• Proven experience setting technical direction and standards adopted across multiple teams
• Deep expertise in MLOps, model deployment, and workflow automation at an organizational/platform level
• Demonstrated ability to operate with full autonomy on ambiguous, high-stakes technical and strategic problems
• Strong track record influencing technical decisions at the leadership level

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree + 10 years OR Master's degree + 8 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Recognized expertise in applied AI/agentic systems
• Experience building AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain (healthcare, finance, etc.)
• History of founding or scaling a technical function from the ground up in a startup environment
• Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping technical career ladders

Benefits

• competitive salaries with equity packages
• robust medical/dental/vision insurance
• flexible working hours
• hybrid work options

About the company

Qualified Health provides infrastructure for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring. The company is a fast-growing, mission-driven team backed by premier investors.