Principal AI Engineer

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Boston, MA
In-Office
200K-250K Annually
Expert/Leader
Software
The Role
The Principal AI Engineer will develop and deploy AI systems, conduct research, set technical directions, and create performance evaluation tools.
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About the Role
We are looking for a Principal AI Engineer who moves fast, experiments relentlessly, and ships agentic AI systems that solve real problems.

Team Dynamic
Who you are:
  • A doer: you're hands-on with code and you experiment daily
  • Fast and intelligent: you make smart decisions quickly and iterate
  • Experimentation-obsessed: you validate through building
  • Comfortable with ambiguity: you forge ahead when the path isn't clear
Position Duties and Responsibilities
  • Build and deploy agentic AI systems
  • Perform research spikes to evaluate scope and feasibility
  • Help set technical direction through working prototypes and rapid experimentation
  • Create evaluation datasets, labeling workflows, and instrumentation to improve agent performance
  • Move from idea to production-ready implementation at speed

Required Experience, Skills, and Education
  • 10+ years of engineering experience shipping impactful products
  • 2+ years building agentic AI systems
  • Strong product sense and you have an understanding on how to integrate agents into user experiences
  • Experience with agentic frameworks. We use Mastra AI, so either experience with or a willingness to learn Typescript
  • Bias toward action and rapid decision-making
Preferred Experience, Skills, and Education
  • ML engineering or data science background
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks, observability tools, or synthetic data generation
  • History of 0-to-1 projects
Salary range $200,000 - $250,000 plus benefits, bonus opportunities and stock options. Final salary may vary depending on skills, location, and/or experience. 

Top Skills

AI
Mastra Ai
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
329 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Businesses run better and grow faster with trustworthy data. For over 20 years, tens of thousands of organizations across the world have relied on Validity solutions – including Everest, DemandTools, BriteVerify, GridBuddy Connect, and MailCharts – to target, contact, engage, and retain customers effectively. Marketing, sales, and customer success teams worldwide trust Validity solutions to help them create smarter campaigns, generate leads, drive response, and increase revenue.

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