Principal AI Engineer

The Principal AI Engineer is a senior individual-contributor and technical-leadership role on the AI and Platform team within Mitratech’s Legal Solutions division, reporting to the Senior Director, AI. The role is aligned to the organization rather than to a single team: you set technical direction across multiple services and teams, define the AI platform patterns the engineering organization builds on — agent orchestration, tooling, governance hooks, and evaluation surfaces — and stay deeply hands-on, writing production code every day.

You will operate in two primary modes: as a technical advisor and expert who helps teams solve problems and set architecture and solutions for specific initiatives, and as an embedded resource who aligns with a particular engineering team for an extended period to implement and deliver key functionality or solve highly complex technical problems before moving on to the next problem or team. In practice, your day to day will likely be a combination of both.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Set technical direction across multiple services and teams, operating with broad autonomy

Define the AI platform patterns other teams build on — agent orchestration, tooling, governance hooks, and evaluation surfaces

Own reliability, testing, CI/CD, and operational standards across multiple teams

Provide technical leadership across teams, and influence staffing and roadmap priorities

Serve as a technical advisor and expert to teams, and embed within teams to deliver complex, high-value functionality

Stay hands-on — design and build production systems in Python across the AI stack

Define patterns and mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar

Requirements & Skills:

Principal-level, hands-on experience as a technical leader who sets direction across teams while still writing production code, with deep expertise across the modern Python AI stack. Specifically, deep expertise in:

Python and backend service development — building and operating production APIs and services.

Cloud platform engineering — designing and running cloud-native, event-driven systems (AWS preferred).

GenAI / LLM application engineering — RAG, embeddings, prompting, and guardrails on managed model platforms.

Agent tooling and integration protocols — agent orchestration frameworks and tool/context protocols such as MCP, including the design of agent coordination patterns.

Data persistence — across relational, key-value, document, and warehouse stores, with async data access and schema migration.

Application security and identity — authentication, authorization, secrets management, and policy enforcement, ideally in a multi-tenant context.

Automated testing and quality engineering — across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.

Modern developer-tooling and code-quality practices — linting, typing, formatting, and reproducible builds.

You also work comfortably with Infrastructure as Code, containerization and orchestration, CI/CD and release automation, and observability and evaluation for LLM and backend systems.

Nice to have: frontend / web UI development; data warehouse engineering; and NoSQL / document databases.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

We will disclose intended pay ranges in our job ads for US-based opportunities – This role can be performed 100% remote anywhere in the US. Anticipated Pay Range: $200,000 – $220,000 Annually USD

Total compensation includes US employee benefits and annual bonus eligibility.

Benefits we offer:

Health, Dental & Vision Insurance *

401 (k) + Employer Match *

Open PTO + 11 Paid Holidays + 4 Annual Paid Global Wellness Days Off

STD, LTD & Group Life Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Pet Insurance

FSA & HSA Options

Employee Assistance Program

Perks we offer:

Remote Work

Career Advancement & Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Recognition

LinkedIn Learning Platform

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