Principal AI Engineer, REMOTE
* Deep software engineering and architecture experience (system design, testing, refactoring, code review) at a level where you confidently judge and correct anything an AI produces.
* Demonstrable AI-first delivery experience: you already ship real, production work primarily through agentic tools. Be ready to show how.
* Fluency with modern AI coding environments (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent), including plan and agent modes.
* Specification-driven, context-engineering discipline: you frame the problem and the design before you let an agent run.
* Sound judgment on when not to trust the agent: you catch hallucinated APIs, silent logic errors, and LLM antipatterns in generated code.
* Strong English; able to work directly with clients and across distributed teams.
Soft skills (as critical as the technical ones):
* Autonomous — take a vague goal, scope it, and drive it to delivery without waiting to be told the next step.
* Business-oriented and business-driven — optimize for client and business outcomes, not technical elegance for its own sake.
* Ownership — accountable for outcomes end-to-end, including what an agent produced under your direction.
* Decisiveness under ambiguity — sound calls with incomplete information, adjusted as reality lands.
* Strong communication — explain technical decisions to clients and non-engineers; make the implicit explicit for teammates and agents.
* Pragmatism over dogma — pick the approach that ships quality fastest, not the most fashionable one.
* Mentorship — raise the people around you, not just your own output.
This is a principal-level engineering role for a strong engineer and architect who has made AI-native delivery their default way of working.You will be one of the engineers who defines how AltexSoft delivers software, internally and on client projects, at substantially higher velocity without sacrificing engineering quality.