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Principal Engineer, AI Platform

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Principal Engineer, AI Platform in USA

  • Ridgeline
  • Full time
  • Email
  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for Ridgeline’s AI platform and shared AI capabilities.
  • Lead technical decisions supporting scalable, reliable, secure, and responsible use of AI platform capabilities.
  • Resolve systemic obstacles affecting the platform’s availability, usability, extensibility, and reliability.
  • Establish engineering standards and production reliability and evaluation approaches for AI models.
  • Partner across Engineering, Product, Data, and other functions to align AI platform investments with company priorities and customer outcomes.
  • Architect retrieval-augmented generation solutions integrating external data stores and build token-efficient systems such as model routing and code execution.
  • Evaluate new AI features and resolve technical debates to align teams on effective approaches.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with deep systems architecture expertise.
  • Significant experience building and shipping AI-powered products in production, including agentic loops, structured responses, tool calling, Model Context Protocol, and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Experience designing scalable and efficient system architectures and evaluating technologies for AI system components.
  • Experience establishing software development best practices and reliability and evaluation standards for production AI models.
  • Full-stack front-end and back-end AI product development experience with proficiency in Kotlin, TypeScript, and React.
  • Experience working with Anthropic and/or OpenAI models and APIs.
  • A track record of driving technical or architectural decisions and aligning stakeholders across teams.
  • Experience integrating third-party data sources and improving AI model performance and token efficiency in production.
  • Bonus experience with multi-agent systems, AI agent orchestration, advanced model evaluation, financial services or investment management, or open-source AI/ML contributions and publications.

Benefits

  • Typical starting base salary is $253,000-$316,000; select locations may use an alternate range of $278,000-$347,500.
  • Company Stock Plan participation is available subject to the applicable agreement.
  • Benefits include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans.
  • The posting is tagged remote and states that employees have opportunities for career advancement.

Salary: $253k - $316k/yr

Ridgeline

Ridgeline® is the first front-to-back system of record for investment managers. Founded by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday), the company was created to modernize an industry held back by outdated, disconnected technology. Powered by a single, real-t...

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