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Principle Engineer AI

Weekday AI

Location
Onsite (Bengaluru, Karnataka)
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior Level
Posted 5 days ago

About the Role

Weekday AI is recruiting a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of production-grade AI applications for a client. The role involves driving enterprise-scale AI adoption, mentoring engineering teams, and establishing technical standards across the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Python ReactJS AngularJS FastAPI Django Flask TypeScript Generative AI LLM RAG Vector Databases AWS Azure GCP Docker Kubernetes

Full job details

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Location: Bengaluru, Pune
JobType: full-time

Principal Engineer – AI & Full-Stack

Experience: 10+ years (with 5+ years in Python production systems) 

Notice Period: 1 month or less

Role Summary Lead the architecture, development, and delivery of production-grade AI-powered applications. Provide technical leadership across the SDLC, mentor engineering teams, and drive enterprise-scale AI adoption.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve end-to-end architectures for AI-enabled applications.
  • Build scalable backend services, APIs, and AI orchestration layers in Python.
  • Develop user-facing applications with React/Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
  • Integrate LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, agents, and enterprise data sources.
  • Establish engineering standards for security, reliability, observability, and performance.
  • Lead technical design reviews and make build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Partner with product, data science, cybersecurity, and cloud stakeholders.
  • Mentor senior engineers and contribute to hiring and capability building.
  • Promote responsible AI practices (privacy, explainability, governance).

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering; 5+ years in Python production systems.
  • Strong expertise in FastAPI, Django, Flask, REST APIs, event-driven architectures.
  • Full-stack experience with React/Angular.
  • Hands-on with LLM apps, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector DBs, AI agents.
  • Cloud-native expertise: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
  • Strong database skills (SQL + NoSQL).
  • Proven ability to lead architecture decisions and influence teams.

Preferred

  • Enterprise-scale AI deployment experience.
  • Knowledge of MLOps, LLMOps, AI safety controls.
  • Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex AI.
  • Consulting/regulated industry experience.
  • Relevant certifications in cloud/architecture/AI.

Must-have skills

Python, ReactJS, AngularJS

Good-to-have skills

Generative AI, LLm, rag