Principal AI-Native Software Engineer – Fullstack Python

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

We are seeking an AI-Native Software Engineer (Principal Software Engineer) who combines software engineering expertise AI agent development and strong business partnership skills. This is not a traditional developer roleyou will work directly with business stakeholders to rapidly transform ideas into production-ready solutions using AI-augmented development practices.

The ideal candidate has deeply integrated AI tools into their daily engineering workflow and can demonstrate how AI has fundamentally improved the speed quality and impact of their work.

What Youll Do

• Partner directly with business leaders and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions in real time.
• Design build and deploy AI-powered applications leveraging LLMs agentic workflows and RAG architectures.
• Develop and orchestrate intelligent agents using frameworks such as LangGraph and MCP.
• Build scalable backend services and APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI Flask or Django.
• Design prompt and context engineering strategies including retrieval memory management personalization and vector search.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise applications data sources vector databases and third-party services.
• Implement testing monitoring security and CI/CD practices to ensure reliable scalable solutions.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering outcomes.

What Youll Need

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.
• 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience building AI-enabled applications and agent-based systems in production.
• Strong expertise in Python development API design and backend architecture.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs prompt engineering context engineering and RAG.
• Experience with LangGraph MCP or similar agent orchestration frameworks.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) containers (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into technical solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

What Youll Bring

• An AI-first mindset with deep adoption of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot Cursor Claude or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated success partnering directly with business leaders to shape and deliver outcomes.
• Experience deploying and scaling AI solutions including multi-agent systems and advanced retrieval architectures.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and systems-thinking skills.
• Preferred experience in:
  • Vector databases and semantic search
  • Knowledge retrieval and NLP systems
  • LLM evaluation tuning or serving
  • Distributed systems and scalable AI architectures
  • Front-end technologies (Angular or similar)
  • Open-source AI or agent development contributions

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

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It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.