About the role
Principal AI Software Engineer
Remote – Boston or NYC based preferred
$225,000-250,000 Base salary + Bonus + Equity
THE COMPANY
Harnham is partnering with a high-growth AI and technology startup operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence, private equity, and digital transformation. The company helps investors and leadership teams unlock value through advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and enterprise-scale technology solutions.
Following a period of rapid growth and expansion, the organization is building a world-class engineering function focused on developing innovative AI-powered platforms that help businesses better understand, optimize, and transform their operations.
This is a unique opportunity to join a highly experienced team with backgrounds from leading technology, consulting, and analytics organizations, while helping shape the future of enterprise AI adoption.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the technical direction and architecture of a next-generation AI-powered business intelligence platform, partnering closely with senior technology leadership.
- Mentor and develop a high-performing team of software engineers, data scientists, and data engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
- Design, build, and experiment with cutting-edge generative AI and LLM solutions to solve complex enterprise challenges.
- Architect and develop production-grade services using Python and modern LLM orchestration frameworks, integrating multiple AI providers.
- Partner with engineering and data teams to design scalable data models and optimize analytical workloads across cloud-based data platforms.
- Build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure, deployment pipelines, observability tooling, and operational best practices.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to translate complex commercial requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence through testing, documentation, code quality standards, monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at Staff, Principal, or Technical Lead level.
- Strong Python development expertise, with experience building production-grade applications, data platforms, and analytical systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies, ideally GCP, including data platforms, storage services, access management, and scalable compute services.
- Strong SQL, data modeling, and data architecture experience supporting analytical workloads.
- Proven success delivering complex projects end-to-end in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
- Experience building and deploying production LLM applications using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or similar technologies.
- Experience working with multiple AI model providers and applying best practices for prompt engineering, context management, and AI application design.
- Outstanding communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling.
- Familiarity with observability and LLM monitoring tools.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for AI applications and machine learning systems.
- Exposure to consulting, private equity, strategy, or enterprise transformation environments.
BENEFITS
- Opportunity to play a key leadership role within a rapidly growing AI business.
- Work alongside highly experienced technology, analytics, and transformation professionals.
- Flexible hybrid or remote working arrangements.
- Significant technical ownership and influence over product and architectural direction.
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI technologies and enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Competitive compensation package and long-term career growth opportunities.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV via the Apply link on this page.
KEY TERMS
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