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Role Description

As a Principal AI Engineer, you will shape Praxent’s AI future by defining technical standards, guiding AI architecture, and enabling teams to deliver high impact AI solutions with confidence and consistency. You will serve as a technical authority across AI initiatives partnering with sales, delivery, and governance teams to translate business goals into scalable, production ready AI systems. Through leadership, mentorship, and hands-on solutioning, you will ensure Praxent remains a trusted AI partner for our clients.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Establish Technical Standards & Architecture
  • Define and maintain AI technical standards, reference architectures, prompt libraries, templates, and playbooks.
  • Support the creation and evolution of AI enabled SDLC frameworks with developers that teams can reliably apply across projects.
  • Lead architecture reviews and act as a quality gate for AI design decisions.
• Support Presales AI Solutioning
  • Partner with sales and delivery to design AI strategies, architectures, and proof of concepts.
  • Translate client needs into compelling technical narratives and implementation plans.
  • Serve as a trusted technical voice during early stage client engagements.
• Design & Implement MLOps Platforms
  • Architect and deploy MLOps/AIOps platforms that support model lifecycle management, evaluation, and monitoring.
  • Optimize performance, cost, and reliability across AI deployments.
  • Ensure AI solutions are secure, observable, and production ready.
• Elevate Training & Delivery Quality
  • Develop and deliver AI training programs, workshops, and internal documentation.
  • Maintain AI standards and learning content within internal platforms.
  • Mentor engineers and delivery leads on AI trade-offs, risks, and best practices.

Qualifications

• AI & Technical Leadership:
  • Deep experience designing and delivering AI enabled systems in production.
  • Strong background in MLOps, model lifecycle management, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Proficiency with modern AI/ML frameworks and cloud based AI platforms.
• Architecture & Delivery Experience:
  • 8–12+ years of professional experience in software engineering and system architecture.
  • Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
  • In depth experience with end-to-end full stack architectures, modernizing legacy systems into scalable, cloud-ready solutions while leveraging AI/ML capabilities (e.g., LLMs, automation, intelligent workflows) to improve performance, maintainability, and business outcomes.
  • Experience improving delivery efficiency through standards and tooling.
• Client & Communication Skills:
  • Comfortable presenting complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to connect AI capabilities to measurable business value.
• Mentorship & Culture Building:
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and elevating team capabilities.
  • Passion for building shared understanding and continuous improvement.
• Relevant Education:
  • May include intensive programs, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Values Alignment:
  • We Care Deeply, Always Deliver, Never Settle, Do It Together, Own the Outcome, and approach every situation with a CAN DO mentality.

Benefits

• Stability: We've been in business for over 20 years.
• Work stays at work: We promote a healthy work/life balance to help ensure you have the time that you need. We encourage no more than a 40 hour work week.
• Great company culture: We’ve been recognized by Texas Monthly, Clutch, Comparably, and more for the quality of our workplace.
• We’re here to empower you: It’s your work and your career. Our management team is here to help you become who you want to be.
• Stay healthy: We offer medical, dental, and vision coverage as well as wellness days. We also provide disability insurance and we even have a wellness program.
• Plan for the future: Save for retirement with an IRA and we’ll match up to 3% every year.
• We value your ideas: At Praxent, our doors are always open.
• Rest and relaxation: Employees enjoy 15 days of PTO, 9 US holidays, 5 wellness days, and a closed office the last week of the year.
• You’re more than an employee, you’re a person: Every co-worker you’ll meet is committed to treating you with respect and kindness.
• Family values: Praxent provides paid parental leave.