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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Engineer - Software Development - **Company:** Verizon Communications Inc. - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $120,500.0 - $231,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Information Systems, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Database Queries, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Engineering, System Testing, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Software Application Programming, Information Technology, Data Lineage, Operational Systems, Looker Analytics - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88451626/1 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience. * Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training. * 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software end-to-end, demonstrating clear personal ownership, identifying specific users impacted, and delivering measurable business outcomes. * Experience shipping Large Language Model (LLM) applications to end users, applying hands-on expertise in prompt and context engineering, retrieval mechanisms, agent design, and system evaluation. * Demonstrated experience integrating data across complex, imperfect systems, leveraging strong SQL skills, practical data agility, and deep comfort navigating cloud environments (GCP) and business intelligence tools (Looker or equivalent). Even better if you have one or more of the following: * 10+ years of relevant engineering experience building, shipping, and scaling enterprise software. * A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical field. * Direct experience working alongside business operators in a highly embedded capacity, such as a forward-deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or founding engineer. * Exposure to regulated-data domains, including telecom CPNI, eDiscovery, financial compliance, or healthcare. * Proven experience operationalizing and scaling AI systems in production environments, with a strong emphasis on system feedback loops and continuous improvement. * Experience working with physical security, Operational Technology (OT), or critical-infrastructure technology. * A verifiable track record operating in high-consequence environments, securely handling highly sensitive information (such as law enforcement data or executive location information). * Exceptional "spec literacy", including the proven experience reading business processes, asking targeted probing questions to surface hidden edge cases, and drafting precise technical specifications. * A proven track record of operating with high autonomy, consistently clearing your own blockers without a program-management layer and escalating issues by proposing solutions rather than just reporting status updates. ## Description * Build applications from specifications: Take completed business requirements specifications and deliver working software against them as a hands-on individual contributor (write code, configure platforms, wire data, and demo results). * Build and operate the AI toolchain: Own internal tooling making the spec-to-build loop repeatable, including structured intake requirements-interview agents, reusable prompt/context/evaluation scaffolding, and build telemetry instrumentation. * Scale Automation Through Agentic Workflows: Design, build, and deploy agents on the Kairos platform, leveraging the enterprise ecosystem to ensure consistency, reusability, rapid iteration, and maximum speed-to-value. * Build necessary data plumbing: Integrate against imperfect upstream systems (SQL Server, BigQuery/EDW, GCP services, Looker, vendor APIs), managing schema drift, partial coverage, and inconsistent definitions while ensuring proper data lineage and governance. * Prove it works before it is trusted: Build evaluation harnesses alongside features (shadow-mode testing, precision/recall measurement, override-feedback loops, human-in-the-loop approval paths). * Demo, ship, and iterate weekly: Ship high-value features to staging weekly and demo to stakeholders on a standing cadence while navigating operational and policy complexity., Where you'll be workingIn this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. 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