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Principal AI Platform Engineer

servicenow
Santa Clara, USA
Full-time
Onsite
$221,200 to $387,100,
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Role Overview

Lead architecture for Forward Deployed Engineers building and operating autonomous intelligence systems, agent runtimes, reasoning pipelines, orchestration platforms, and AI-native applications.

The role spans customer problem definition, agent-directed software development, context engineering, code verification, architecture, deployment, and production ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Establish best practices and reference architecture for more than 30 Forward Deployed Engineers delivering agentic AI solutions.
  • Translate customer use cases into precise specifications and efficient solutions using the ServiceNow AI Platform and other AI tools.
  • Direct AI coding agents across multiple files, services, and parallel workstreams.
  • Create prompts, agent instructions, architectural records, glossaries, examples, and documentation that improve agent reliability.
  • Review software for correctness, security, performance, maintainability, edge cases, failure modes, and concurrency.
  • Own production integration, monitoring, security defenses, reliability, and feedback into evaluation sets.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating production software with AI-native methods.
  • Customer-facing experience deploying AI as a Forward Deployed Engineer.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and AI/ML knowledge, including models, embeddings, LLM behavior, and failure modes.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools, autonomous agent systems, tool use, planning, memory, policies, and multi-agent collaboration.
  • Experience designing context systems that control information retrieval and model context over time.

Compensation

  • Base pay is listed as $221,200 to $387,100, plus equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, and benefits.
  • Individual total compensation varies based on qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.

Benefits

  • Benefits include health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.

Work Personas

  • ServiceNow assigns flexible, remote, or required-in-office work personas based on the nature of the work and assigned work location.
  • Eligibility for a work persona may be assessed using the distance between an employee's residence and the closest ServiceNow office.

About ServiceNow

ServiceNow provides an AI platform combining AI, data, and workflows to support business reinvention.

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