Principal AI Engineer – Automation & AI

The role

The Principal AI Engineer is a hands-on technical leader who designs, builds, and deploys AI-powered automation solutions. You will work within a small team to translate business problems into production-grade AI systems like multi-agent workflows and RAG-based applications.

What you will do

• Design and deploy agentic AI workflows and automation solutions across enterprise functions
• Build production-grade systems including multi-agent workflows and RAG-based applications
• Translate business problems into working AI systems
• Design lightweight architectures and iterate quickly
• Develop prompt engineering strategies, orchestration logic, and API integrations
• Deliver continuous output with weekly or bi-weekly releases
• Build and maintain reusable assets like prompt templates and agent design patterns
• Provide technical guidance to a small team of AI engineers and automation specialists

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field
• 6–10+ years of software engineering experience with recent hands-on work in AI/LLM systems
• Proven experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and automation solutions in production environments
• Strong hands-on experience with tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, NotebookLM (or similar AI-assisted development tools)
• Strong hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or equivalent frameworks
• Proficiency in Python
• Proficiency in API development and system integration
• Proficiency in Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Nice to have

• Experience with RAG architectures and vector databases
• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and monitoring
• Experience with workflow automation tools and enterprise integrations
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., life sciences, healthcare, financial services)
• Familiarity with clinical data, CDISC standards, or clinical development workflows
• Experience in high-growth or PE-backed SaaS environments

About the company

eClinical Solutions is a global leader in clinical data intelligence, delivering the elluminate® Clinical Data Cloud® platform. The company is a people first organization with an inclusive culture.