AI Engineering
Principal AI Engineer
Set technical direction for AI systems that combine models, tools, data, evaluations, and human oversight.
Oklahoma City, OK / HybridFull-timePrincipalU.S. Citizen / TS capable
Impact
- Define architecture patterns for reliable AI products.
- Mentor engineers building agentic and decision intelligence capabilities.
- Raise the bar on quality, safety, and production readiness.
What you'll do
- Lead design of AI platforms, agent frameworks, model workflows, and evaluation systems.
- Make build-versus-buy decisions across model providers, tools, and infrastructure.
- Review high-risk AI features for reliability, security, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to turn strategy into shipped systems.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software or AI engineering experience.
- Track record shipping production AI, ML, search, data, or automation systems.
- Deep judgment around model limitations, evaluations, privacy, and operational risk.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance.
- Comfort working with ambiguous mission, data, and engineering problems.
- Strong written communication and ability to explain technical decisions to technical and non-technical teams.
Preferred experience
- AWS experience is a plus, especially secure cloud, GovCloud, serverless, data, or AI services.
- AI, machine learning, LLM, agentic workflow, or decision intelligence experience is a plus.
- Experience in defense, government, manufacturing, aerospace, logistics, or other mission-critical environments is a plus.
Hiring note
Anautics evaluates candidates based on role-relevant skills, judgment, ownership, and ability to work in high-trust environments. AWS and AI experience are strong pluses across this hiring plan.