Principal AI Platform Engineer

Urbane Systems LLC
San Francisco, United States of America
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
$ 150K

Job location

San Francisco, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems
Google BigQuery
Information Engineering
Data Systems
Distributed Systems
Graph Database
Python
PostgreSQL
Metadata
OAuth
OpenID
Role-Based Access Control
Standard Sql
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Search Technologies
Single Sign-On
Large Language Models
Snowflake
Spark
Backend
Data Layers
AI Platforms
Data Management
Databricks

Requirements

You are the right fit if you have * Strong experience in data engineering, data platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise data infrastructure. * Practical experience building AI-enabled data systems, retrieval systems, semantic layers, or data agents. * Strong knowledge of SQL, APIs, documents, vector search, knowledge graphs, and metadata systems. * Experience with agentic interfaces, tool-calling, MCP or similar protocols, function calling, or AI backends. * Good understanding of governance: access control, policies, contracts, lineage, data quality, PII protection, and auditability. * Ability to build production systems that are safe, observable, testable, and reliable. * Strong Python skills and comfort working across backend services, data systems, APIs, and AI frameworks. * Product-minded judgment: you know the difference between a demo, a customer-specific workaround, and a reusable platform capability. * Comfort working in ambiguous areas where the patterns are still being defined.

Nice to have * Experience with data mesh, data products, semantic models, catalogs, governance platforms, or data marketplaces. * Experience with MCP servers, tool registries, LLM orchestration, RAG systems, or multi-step agents. * Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Spark, DuckDB, Postgres, graph databases, vector databases, or lakehouse architectures. * Experience with enterprise identity and authorization systems such as SSO, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, ABAC, or policy engines. * Experience evaluating AI systems for retrieval quality, tool-use accuracy, groundedness, reproducibility, and failure modes.

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