Principal Engineer, AI Engagement Lead

Object Computing, Inc. • St. Louis, MO

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About The Position

This is a hands-on, AI-first role where you will build with GenAI every day. You will be responsible for leading AI-powered development from start to finish, including discovery, rollout planning, proof of concept, and production build. You will build lightweight business apps in days and ensure they are stable in production. You will also serve as a technical lead, architect, and coach for the engineering team, and act as the technical point of contact for client sponsors.

Requirements

• All-in on AI. GenAI coding tools are your main way of building, and you've shipped working business apps that way. You can read and judge Python or TypeScript even if you no longer type most of it.
• Technical depth. Deep in at least one of application development, data engineering, or cloud, and a strong architect across all three.
• Production track record. Technical lead on at least two systems that went live and stayed live, ideally in a regulated industry.
• Real LLM experience. You've built with large language models beyond a demo: retrieval, evaluation, agents, or tool use.
• Business fluency. You can run discovery across core business applications and turn it into a plan an executive will fund.
• Communication. An excellent communicator who's comfortable working directly with executives.
• Leadership. You've led engineers without formal authority and know how to get a team unstuck.

Responsibilities

• Run lightweight discovery across a client's core business processes and platforms: finance, HR, customer, productivity, and the data underneath.
• Shape a company-wide AI rollout plan with the client's executives and agree on what to tackle first.
• Build the proof of concept yourself, quickly, to show what custom AI-powered apps can do.
• Lead the follow-on build: set the architecture, hold the bar on testing, security, and infrastructure as code, and ship to production in the client's cloud.
• Unblock the team, improve how it works, and coach the OCI engineers on the engagement.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for the client sponsor, and bring what you learn back to OCI.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed