Principal Founding Product Engineer
About The Opportunity
Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing technology company building critical infrastructure that powers high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms. We are seeking a Principal AI Engineer to define architecture and technical strategy for highly scalable AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Define architecture for large-scale AI systems.
- Lead complex model serving and inference initiatives.
- Optimize AI workloads across performance, quality, and cost.
- Evaluate and introduce emerging AI technologies.
- Establish technical standards across AI engineering.
- Lead high-impact cross-functional AI initiatives.
- Mentor senior and staff AI engineers.
- Influence product and infrastructure strategy.
Requirements
- 8+ years of AI/ML or software engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in production AI systems.
- Strong distributed systems and architecture skills.
- Significant LLM and inference experience.
- Strong technical leadership.
- Proven ability to solve complex AI engineering problems at scale.
Nice to Have
- vLLM, Triton, TGI, CUDA.
- GPU optimization and distributed inference.
- Kubernetes.
- AI agents and RAG.
- Large-scale model serving.
Benefits
Full benefit package and competitive compensation.
Pay
Compensation: $200,000–$350,000 USD
Schedule
Type: Full-time
Start Date: ASAP
Location
United States — Remote
Languages
Fluent English required
Why Join?
Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations, offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems, large-scale integrations, and real-world technical challenges. You'll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged, decisions are made quickly, and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture. This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems, work with modern technologies, and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.