Work Location: Columbus, Ohio Remote with periodic onsite visits in Columbus, OH
Contract Duration: 6-12 Months
Work Arrangement: Remote with periodic onsite visits in Columbus, OH (~10%, quarterly)
Job Description:
You’ll be the founding engineer , building and operating the AI platform and the first production applications on it - end to end, from infrastructure and orchestration through evaluation and monitoring.
This is a principal-scope, hands-on role where you will ship code every week and own it in production.
What You’ll Do:
- 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.
Required Qualifications:
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- SAP or enterprise ERP integration experience.
- Technical leadership or mentoring experience.
- Experience in regulated or industrial-sector environments .
Principal AI Engineer in columbus at Unknown Company
This position is listed as contract and able to be worked remotely.