Principal AI Engineer

Santa Clara, CA, US • Posted 3 days ago • Updated 1 hour ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
Contract Corp To Corp
12 Months
On-site
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Skills

  • Chinese
  • Offshoring
  • Microsoft
  • Systems Engineering
  • Team Leadership
  • Orchestration
  • Systems Design
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Principal AI Engineer:

Contract: 1 year to start

Location: Hybrid in Santa Clara, CA (must be local or relocate)

Med device experience not required

MUST HAVES: proficiency in Chinese to communicate with offshore teams

  • Most recent 2+ years at a major AI tech company (e.g., Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Microsoft)

Requirements:

  • Strong passion, extensive hands-on experience on harness engineering, AI coding ("vibe coding")
  • Must be VERY hands on/technical
  • Hands-on LLM fine-tuning experience
  • Hands-on agent systems development.
  • Team leadership experience preferred
  • Design and deliver end-to-end AI systems and pipelines, including agent selection, orchestration, and full development infrastructure.
  • Lead AI adoption initiatives, driving strategy and implementing AI development capabilities across the organization.
  • Build agent-based (agentic) architectures and scalable pipelines, combining system design with practical AI/ML integration.
  • Implement secure, governed AI solutions for production-ready deployment standards.
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  • Dice Id: 91022079
  • Position Id: 2026-49289
  • Posted 3 days ago
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