Principal AI Engineer

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LINQ EdTech SaaS
Work remote from one of our eligible states across the US, or if you’re near Austin three days in office a week!Full-TimePrincipal
Salary$190,000 – $220,000
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Job Details

Experience
8+ years building production software
Required Skills
AWSNode.jsJavascriptTypeScriptReactLLM

Requirements

  • 8+ years building production software.
  • Direct experience building multi-step, tool-using LLM workflows in production.
  • Working knowledge of foundation model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.).
  • Experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, etc.).
  • Fluency in scripting, light app development, API integrations, and data pipelines.
  • Proven track record of driving adoption of new tools and practices.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience in a PE-backed or multi-product SaaS environment.
  • Comfort with high ambiguity and autonomous project definition.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with teams across LINQ to identify friction and simplify workflows with agents.
  • Design and ship multi-step, tool-using agents using foundation model APIs and agent frameworks.
  • Develop reusable skills and primitives to ensure agent work compounds across the company.
  • Define metrics and dashboards to instrument and prove the impact of AI tools.
  • Train internal teams and transition ownership of agents to sustaining teams.
  • Define the internal agent platform architecture, including orchestration and evaluation pipelines.
  • Make build-vs-buy-vs-integrate recommendations for AI tooling.
  • Co-launch and lead an internal AI champions network.
  • Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure agents meet regulatory standards.
  • Advise on AI landscape, models, and platform adoption.
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