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Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Harnham · New York, NY · 6 days ago
HybridAnalyst$170k–$210k/yrFull-time

The role

As a Principal ML Engineer, you’ll sit at the sharp end of applied AI, architecting and shipping LLM, RAG and agentic platforms used across the business. This is a hands-on senior IC role with real influence: setting engineering standards, mentoring senior engineers, and shaping AI strategy alongside leadership.

What you’ll be doing

  • Designing, deploying and operating LLMs, RAG pipelines and autonomous agents
  • Building scalable Python backends & APIs (FastAPI, async systems)
  • Owning LLMOps/MLOps, cloud AI infrastructure and observability
  • Driving best practice across ML, software engineering and platform design

What we’re looking for

  • 10+ years in ML / software / data roles, expert Python engineer
  • Strong experience with GenAI frameworks, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Production mindset: distributed systems, reliability, scalability
  • Comfortable influencing teams and leaders without line management

Why apply

  • Principal-level impact and autonomy
  • Cutting-edge AI at real scale (not POCs)
  • High-trust, high-performance engineering culture

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