Principal AI Engineer

Posted 2 Months Ago
2 Locations
In-Office
200K-260K Annually
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology
The Role
Build SeekrFlow Edge Builder, a platform for packaging, deploying, and operating trustworthy AI solutions across edge, cloud, on-premises, disconnected, and air-gapped environments. Responsibilities include developing orchestration, lifecycle management, model serving, optimization, security, observability, testing, APIs, diagnostics, and recovery capabilities. The role requires collaboration across AI, platform, infrastructure, security, product, and customer engineering teams, plus technical documentation and troubleshooting across complex deployment environments.
Summary Generated by Built In

We're looking for a Staff or Principal AI Engineer to help build SeekrFlow Edge Builder, the platform that makes it simple to package, configure, deploy, and operate trustworthy AI solutions across edge, on-premises, cloud, disconnected, and air-gapped environments. You will work across AI, software, infrastructure, and security layers to turn complex deployment requirements into reliable, reusable product capabilities. 

The Impact 
Your work will help customers run mission-critical AI closer to their data and users, including in environments with limited connectivity, strict security requirements, and constrained hardware. You will shape the product architecture, developer experience, and operational foundations that make AI deployments repeatable, secure, observable, and easy to manage at scale. 

Duties and Responsibilities 

  • Design and build core capabilities of SeekrFlow Edge Builder for packaging, configuring, deploying, and operating AI solutions at the edge.
  • Develop workflows that assemble models, agents, data pipelines, APIs, and supporting services into repeatable edge deployments.
  • Build abstractions and tooling for deploying AI workloads across cloud, on-premises, edge, disconnected, and air-gapped environments.
  • Implement model and service lifecycle capabilities, including versioning, configuration, validation, upgrades, rollback, and compatibility management.
  • Develop infrastructure and orchestration components for containers, Kubernetes, local inference, hardware accelerators, storage, and networking.
  • Build optimization features that account for device capabilities, CPU/GPU availability, memory, storage, bandwidth, power, and latency constraints.
  • Integrate model-serving runtimes, data connectors, APIs, observability components, security controls, and enterprise systems into the platform.
  • Create automated preflight checks, deployment validation, health monitoring, diagnostics, and recovery workflows.
  • Build secure-by-default platform capabilities, including identity, access control, secrets management, encryption, audit logging, and software supply-chain protections.
  • Develop testing frameworks for functional correctness, deployment compatibility, performance, reliability, and AI model behavior.
  • Design APIs, configuration schemas, user workflows, and developer interfaces that make complex edge deployments simple and repeatable.
  • Troubleshoot and improve platform behavior across models, runtimes, containers, operating systems, hardware, networking, and customer environments.
  • Collaborate with ML, platform, security, product, and customer engineering teams to turn deployment challenges into scalable product capabilities.
  • Produce technical documentation, reference architectures, runbooks, and implementation guidance for Edge Builder users and internal teams. 

Qualifications and Skills Required 

  • Experience building production AI/ML platforms, MLOps systems, developer tools, or deployment infrastructure.
  • Strong Python, Go, or similar software-development skills.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, APIs, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Understanding of model serving, inference runtimes, quantization, batching, hardware acceleration, and resource-constrained environments.
  • Experience with model formats or runtimes such as ONNX, TensorRT, PyTorch, Triton, vLLM, or similar technologies.
  • Experience designing configuration-driven systems, deployment workflows, platform APIs, or orchestration tools.
  • Knowledge of secure software development, identity and access management, secrets, encryption, auditability, and supply-chain security.
  • Familiarity with edge, on-premises, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments.
  • Strong systems-thinking and troubleshooting skills across application, platform, infrastructure, and AI layers.
  • Experience building automated testing, observability, diagnostics, and reliability capabilities into platform products. 

#LI-CT1

This range reflects Seekr’s good faith estimate of  what it expects to pay for this role at the time of posting. Placement within the range depends on a number of factors, including but not limited to geographic location, applicable labor categories under Seekr’s federal government contracts, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education, and certifications. This role may also be eligible for annual bonus, equity, other other incentive compensation.

 
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$200,000—$260,000 USD

About the Company:  

Seekr is a leader in explainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence designed to power mission-critical decisions in enterprises, government, and regulated industries. SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end AI platform, provides secure, auditable AI solutions tailored to sectors where transparency, accuracy, and compliance are paramount. Available across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, SeekrFlow reduces bias, strengthens data integrity, and simplifies model oversight so organizations can rely on trusted AI decisions in high-stakes settings that impact society’s most sensitive and vital systems. Trusted by leading enterprises and government agencies, we partner with defense, finance, telecom, and critical infrastructure leaders to enable AI solutions that drive real-world results with unmatched transparency and control. We are a team of strategic thinkers and problem-solvers tackling the toughest challenges facing critical infrastructure and global enterprises through best-in-class AI models and customer deployment. Our team operates with unwavering commitment to our core values and mission:
  • We are driven by outcomes—our customers' success is what we strive for every day.
  • We believe trust is earned, which is why we build explainability and transparency into the entire AI lifecycle.
  • We take our responsibility to deliver secure AI seriously.
  • We believe innovation drives progress—we are building the technologies that power the systems our society depends on.

Company Benefits:

  • Meaningful Mission & Impact - Work with a deeply talented, collaborative team solving some of the toughest AI challenges that matter. 
  • Equity Ownership – RSUs that let you share directly in Seekr’s long‑term success and growth.
  • Time Off That Respects Real Life – Unlimited PTO plus 14 paid company holidays to truly recharge. 
  • Work Your Way – A flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.
  • Competitive Total Rewards – A role‑appropriate compensation structure that supports long‑term growth, including base salary, bonuses, or commission plans depending on role.
  • 401(k) with Company Match – Build your future with a retirement plan that includes employer matching. 
  • Comprehensive Health & Wellness – Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting day one—for you and your family.  
  • Parental Leave – Paid parental leave to support employees as they welcome a new child through birth, adoption, or foster placement.

Important Notice: 
 
To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.
 
Seekr is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Skills Required

  • Experience building production AI/ML platforms, MLOps systems, developer tools, or deployment infrastructure
  • Strong Python, Go, or similar software development skills
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, APIs, networking, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Understanding of model serving, inference runtimes, quantization, batching, hardware acceleration, and resource-constrained environments
  • Experience with model formats or runtimes such as ONNX, TensorRT, PyTorch, Triton, vLLM, or similar technologies
  • Experience designing configuration-driven systems, deployment workflows, platform APIs, or orchestration tools
  • Knowledge of secure software development, identity and access management, secrets, encryption, auditability, and supply-chain security
  • Familiarity with edge, on-premises, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments
  • Strong systems-thinking and troubleshooting skills across application, platform, infrastructure, and AI layers
  • Experience building automated testing, observability, diagnostics, and reliability capabilities into platform products
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The Company
HQ: Vienna, Virginia
69 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Seekr Technologies Inc. (“Seekr”) is an Artificial General Intelligence company that develops and offers ethical AI solutions, employing large language models to identify, evaluate, summarize, and generate reliable content at scale. Leveraging its proprietary Principle-Aligned AI technology, vast language and vision models, and an independent web-scale search engine, Seekr enables users to build, manage, and deploy grounded, trustworthy, and transparent LLMs, empowering users to discover, create, and trust a world of content

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