Principal Senior AI Engineer

Job Title: Principal Senior AI Engineer
Key Skills: LLMs, RAG Pipelines, TypeScript, Python, React, AWS, Node.js, AI Evaluation, Prompt Engineering, Full-Stack Development
Experience: +5 YOE
Location: LATAM (Exclusive residents)

We at Coforge are hiring a Principal Senior AI Engineer (21707) with the following skill set.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical direction for AI-enabled products and tooling, transforming AI solutions from beta to scalable production-grade platforms
  Design, develop, and deploy full-stack AI features end-to-end, including backend LLM orchestration, retrieval pipelines, evaluation systems, and frontend user experiences
• Architect and optimize AI workflows focused on model selection, prompting strategies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), latency, safety, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Identify and implement new opportunities to integrate Generative AI into existing software platforms and workflows
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to prioritize features, define MVPs, and balance speed with long-term scalability
• Build and maintain robust backend services and APIs using modern cloud-native technologies
• Establish best practices for AI engineering including observability, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership to engineers working on AI and platform initiatives
• Contribute actively to software architecture discussions and technical decision-making processes
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business challenges into scalable engineering solutions

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing AI-enabled products using LLM APIs and Generative AI technologies
• Proven experience designing and implementing RAG pipelines, prompt workflows, and AI evaluation strategies
• Strong full-stack engineering capabilities across backend services and frontend development
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed programming language such as Go, TypeScript, Java, or C#
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend technologies like Node.js or Python
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and scalable application design
• Experience of working with AWS or other major cloud platforms
• Solid software engineering practices including testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and observability
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially in ambiguous and fast-moving environments
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs related to AI solutions, including build vs. buy decisions and model optimization strategies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience scaling AI products in startup or high-growth environments
  Hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Go, C#, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS
• Experience with AI evaluation infrastructure, LLM guardrails, and observability platforms
• Knowledge of model fine-tuning, ML experimentation, or broader machine learning workflows
• Experience building developer tools, DevOps platforms, CI/CD solutions, or source-control-related products
• Familiarity with industrial automation, manufacturing software, IoT platforms, or operational technology environments
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives across teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Posted On: 06-06-2026

At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.