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Principal AI Engineer

Job in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 43224, USA
Listing for: Compunnel, Inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-17
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 260000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 260000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

The Principal AI Engineer will be the founding engineer responsible for building and operating the enterprise AI platform and its first production applications end-to-end. This role sets the engineering standards — repository structure, testing, deployment patterns — that future hires will build upon. It is a principal-scope, hands-on role where you ship code weekly and own it in production.

Key Responsibilities
  • Bu ild and operate AI environments including the governed enterprise MCP gateway and Azure AI foundation.
  • Implement SAP identity passthrough in partnership with IT/SAP teams.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines for AI assets, with evaluation and observability harness instrumented from day one.
  • Ship production AI use cases including retrieval, grounding, and agentic workflows released behind evaluation gates.
  • Co-build with integration partners during initial platform build, internalizing patterns for long-term capability.
  • Define engineering standards, tooling, and practices, serving as technical lead as the team grows.
First 90 Days
  • Deliver the MCP gateway carrying production traffic for the first use case in a company-owned Azure environment.
  • Establish evaluation scores and telemetry flowing from day-one instrumentation.
  • Publish engineering standards for repository structure, testing, and deployment.
Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong coding fluency in Python and/or Type Script.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating production LLM/agentic systems end-to-end (data flows, orchestration, deployment, evaluation, incident response).
  • Expertise in evaluation engineering: designing eval suites, datasets, metrics, regression tests wired into CI/CD.
  • Ownership of CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, or equivalent).
  • Identity-aware API and integration design.
  • Sound judgment in vendor partnerships while keeping core capability in-house.
  • Daily use of AI assistants (Claude, Microsoft Copilot) in development workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Exper
    ience implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP).
  • Exposure to SAP ERP integration or other enterprise ERP systems.
  • Experience with enterprise integration/automation (iPaaS) platforms.
  • Prior technical-lead or mentoring experience.
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