[Remote] Principal AI Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pearlsoft Solutions Inc. is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to build and operate an enterprise AI platform and its first production applications. The role owns end-to-end infrastructure, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, CI/CD, AI use cases, and technical standards while serving as a hands-on technical lead.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the governed enterprise MCP gateway and Azure AI environments
• Implement SAP identity passthrough in partnership with the IT/SAP organization
• Own CI/CD for AI assets, evaluation, observability, and cost/usage telemetry
• Ship the first production AI use case and prioritized portfolio including retrieval, grounding, and agentic workflows
• Co-build with an enterprise integration partner while keeping core capabilities in-house
• Define engineering standards, tooling, and practices and serve as a technical lead as the team grows

Skills

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills
• Deep Azure expertise including infrastructure-as-code (Bicep or Terraform), networking, identity, container platforms, and Azure AI services
• Production experience building and running LLM or agentic systems end to end
• Experience with evaluation engineering, including datasets, metrics, regression tests, and CI release gates
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
• Strong identity-aware API and integration design experience
• Experience partnering with vendors while keeping core capabilities in-house
• AI-augmented development using tools such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation experience
• SAP or enterprise ERP integration experience
• Enterprise integration/automation (iPaaS) experience
• Technical leadership or mentoring experience
• Experience in regulated or industrial-sector environments

Benefits

• Remote work with periodic onsite visits in Columbus, OH (~10%, quarterly)

Company Overview

It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in , with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.pearlsoftsolutions.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Pearlsoft Solutions Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 8 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 10 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.