GRADION

Principal Engineer

GRADION
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2 months ago
Hanoi, Vietnam or Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own architecture and system design decisions for the hardest systems across the company’s portfolio.
  • Write code, prototype ideas, debug difficult failures, and work directly alongside engineering teams.
  • Review high-risk implementations and improve engineering quality through hands-on technical leadership.
  • Build useful AI systems and turn successful approaches into reusable practices for other teams.
  • Collaborate with Tech Leads on scalability, performance, reliability, and technical debt.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, prototype them, make recommendations, and document the reasoning.
  • Translate vague client and stakeholder problems into clear technical direction.
  • Mentor senior engineers and shape decisions without formal management authority.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building and running production software while remaining hands-on with code.
  • Deep expertise in system design, architecture, scalability, performance, distributed systems, and reliability.
  • Experience setting technical direction across several teams or a large, long-running program.
  • Deep proficiency in at least one programming language and comfort working in several others.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-based systems, including AI APIs, prompt and context design, and at least one of agents, RAG, or evaluation.
  • Strong technical judgment about prioritization, technical debt, and when not to build.
  • Ability to mentor senior engineers and influence decisions without formal authority.
  • Comfort working directly with clients and non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience includes production AI systems at scale, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, cost and latency tuning, data platforms, cybersecurity, robotics, enterprise systems, internal tooling or platform work, open-source contributions, conference talks, or technical writing.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, performance-based bonus, and benefits reflecting impact.
  • Up to two months of performance bonus and twice-yearly performance reviews.
  • Premium healthcare, 15 days of annual leave, and full salary during probation.
  • Hybrid working with locations in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, plus remote work from Hanoi or Can Tho.
  • Monday–Friday working schedule from 9 AM to 6 PM.
  • Global projects, cross-border collaboration, technical communities, and continuous learning opportunities.

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51-200 employees
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