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Principal GenAI Engineer

Metalight Solutions IncUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 31 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Level
Leader

Job Description

Job Title: Principal GenAI Engineer

Location: Remote (USA)
Employment Type: Full-Time

What We're Looking For

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal GenAI Engineer with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions. The ideal candidate should have long-term project experience (preferably 2 5+ years on key projects instead of multiple short-term engagements) and a stable work history with well-established product companies, Fortune 500 organizations, or leading technology firms.

Required Experience

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience building Generative AI and LLM-powered applications.
  • Strong experience designing and deploying production-grade AI systems.
  • Demonstrated experience working on long-term enterprise AI initiatives.

Must-Have Technical Skills

  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LangSmith
  • Agentic AI
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • AI Agents / Autonomous Agents
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Vector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Milvus, FAISS, etc.)
  • Embedding Models
  • OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Gemini, Llama, or similar foundation models
  • Python
  • FastAPI or similar backend frameworks
  • REST APIs
  • Docker & Kubernetes
  • AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Git, CI/CD

Preferred Experience

  • Experience building enterprise AI copilots or AI assistants.
  • Experience with AI orchestration frameworks and workflow automation.
  • Knowledge of model evaluation, observability, and LLM monitoring.
  • Experience optimizing AI applications for scalability, latency, and cost.
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning, guardrails, and AI security best practices.
  • Experience integrating AI solutions with enterprise platforms and APIs.

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • Stable career history with long project durations.
  • Experience working with reputed organizations or Fortune 500 companies.
  • Strong system design and architecture experience.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor engineering teams.

Nice to Have

  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • CrewAI
  • AutoGen
  • Semantic Kernel
  • LlamaIndex
  • Azure AI Studio
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI
  • MLflow
  • Databricks
  • Neo4j / Knowledge Graphs

Skills

Docker
FastAPI
Neo4j
AWS
MLflow
Azure
Databricks
Generative AI
Git
Google Cloud
Kubernetes
LLM
Python
REST
Stakeholder Management

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