Principal AI Engineer

Principal AI Engineer

Vacancy details

EuropeEurope

RemoteRemote

Recruiter

Tetiana Korchmenko

Role overview

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Principal AI engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week), fully remote in Europe. Our client is a digital marketing company that offers email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools to help organizations expand their businesses by fostering stronger customer relationships.

This is a hands-on Principal IC role. The client is looking for a technical lead for frontier AI who stays close to the code, brings strong product judgment, and raises the bar for agent systems, evals, harness engineering, and the way the client builds with AI. You will write code, prototype, debug production systems, and establish patterns that other engineers can build on. Currently, 15 AI engineers are organized into three squads.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership as a senior individual contributor.
• Proven track record of shipping AI/LLM-powered products to production.
• Deep experience with agent architectures, orchestration, tool calling, and MCP interface design.
• Hands-on experience with Mastra or similar agent/workflow frameworks.
• Strong understanding of workflow design and of when to use deterministic, agentic, or hybrid approaches.
• Strong understanding of context engineering: retrieval, memory, compaction, and long-running state.
• Experience with harness engineering: designing the context, tools, environments, and feedback loops that agents operate in.
• Practical experience building evals, regression tests, traces, and production-quality signals for AI systems.
• Experience building long-running, resumable systems that recover safely from failures.
• Familiarity with AI safety and security concerns, such as permissions, tool authorization, human approval, and untrusted inputs.
• Strong backend and distributed systems experience, ideally with Python and/or TypeScript.
• Strong product sense: the ability to recognize what makes an AI experience useful, intuitive, and trustworthy.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-native development tools and coding agents effectively.
• Comfort with ambiguity, including investigating unfamiliar systems and unblocking yourself.
• Strong written and verbal communication across distributed teams and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead for frontier AI across the client's teams, staying current on models, agent architectures, tools, and emerging engineering practices.

• Stay hands-on in the architecture and implementation of production AI systems.

• Design and evolve the client's agent platform, including Mastra, workflows, tools/MCP, context and memory, retrieval, and durable execution.

• Lead the approach to harness engineering, including context, instructions, tools, skills, guardrails, and feedback loops.

• Establish a strong eval discipline across prompts, models, tools, workflows, and end-to-end customer outcomes.

• Work with Product and Design to shape useful AI experiences and quickly prototype ideas.

• Build reusable AI platform capabilities that other engineering teams can adopt.

• Design reliable agent systems that handle retries, partial failures, interruptions, and long-running work.

• Make thoughtful tradeoffs across model quality, latency, cost, safety, and reliability.

• Raise the technical bar through architecture, code reviews, mentoring, pairing, and hands-on implementation.

• Collaborate openly across teams and time zones through clear written proposals, ADRs, prototypes, and technical discussion.

• Help evolve how the client builds software through AI-native engineering practices and coding agents.

• We offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.

• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.

• Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.

• Flexibility in workspace, either remote or our welcoming office.

• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.

• Generous time off, including vacation, national holidays, sick leaves, and family days.

• Personalized learning programs tailored to your interests and skill development.

• Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.

• Regular corporate online activities.

• Awesome team and a friendly, supportive community!

• Why join Svitla

• Svitla Systems is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S. and operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients - from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our success is built on partnership. By integrating seamlessly with clients' teams, we create lasting collaborations that drive real results. We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote culture, individual approach to professional and personal growth.

• Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to wellbeing of our partners, personnel, and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow - and living it.

• Join us!

• Vacancy details

• Recruiter

• Tetiana Korchmenko

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