Principal AI Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Technical leadership: lead technical conversations, be hands-on in building applications or proofs of concept, and establish AI/ML guidelines and standards for partners, prospects and the organization
• ▹Entrepreneurship: spot market opportunities to match technology with business outcomes
• ▹Drive Able's AI strategy forward by constantly exploring and implementing cutting-edge AI technologies, frameworks and tools
• ▹Consulting and business development: work with partners and prospects to understand their business and conceive of opportunities to improve performance with technology, AI specifically
• ▹AI enablement: provide coaching and mentorship, enhancing the team's and partner teams' AI capabilities through knowledge sharing and training

Requirements

• ▹12+ years building AI/ML systems, with production experience shipping and operating them
• ▹Fluency with the modern LLM stack: frontier models, RAG, vector databases, agentic frameworks, and the evals and guardrails that make them trustworthy in production
• ▹Operate in the spec-and-harness model, leveraging agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) at the spec and acceptance layer
• ▹Demonstrated experience leading large and complex projects
• ▹Proven experience integrating ML and generative models with existing web and mobile applications
• ▹Ability to interact with and inspire partners and executive stakeholders on new AI ideas
• ▹Ability to connect business challenges to the potential benefits of AI and communicate them to non-technical audiences
• ▹Excellent English verbal and written communication
• ▹Background as a Technical Founder, Co-founder or founding engineer at an AI company

Nice to have

• ▹Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, with a strong focus on AI and Machine Learning
• ▹Experience with MCP, graph-based retrieval or multimodal pipelines

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹40 hours per week, available during normal business hours as needed
• ▹Payments made in USD
• ▹18 days of PTO per year, observance of local holidays and an annual break between Christmas and New Year
• ▹Monthly wellness stipend and snack boxes delivered to your home
• ▹AI training, knowledge-sharing and hands-on experimentation

About the company

Able started in 2012 as an engineering and product hub building for a portfolio of early-stage startups. Today it is entering a chapter defined by applied AI and becoming an AI-native organization.