Principal Product Engineer - Evinova
AstraZeneca8 days ago
Base Salary
$172k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI-powered product features including agent architectures, RAG pipelines, model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails.
- Own application code, data stores, infrastructure, deployment, observability, cost, and security decisions for features built end-to-end.
- Set technical direction and make architectural choices that balance rapid prototyping with durable production systems.
- Mentor and coach engineers through pairing, design reviews, judgment transfer, and technical leadership.
- Evaluate system constraints, failure modes, dependencies, reversibility, durability, and the blast radius of technical decisions.
- Build AI systems that are versioned, evaluated, observable, testable, and able to degrade gracefully.
- Read and understand existing systems and their history before proposing architectural changes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time at a senior, staff, or principal level owning technical direction.
- Production experience building AI-powered features such as agent systems, RAG, or model orchestration; prompting or isolated fine-tuning alone is insufficient.
- Strong full-stack capability across application code, data stores, and infrastructure.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating production systems on AWS at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate other engineers through pairing, design reviews, or informal technical leadership.
- Preferred experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, pharma, or finance.
- Preferred background building multi-agent or agentic AI systems in production.
- Preferred familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi and container orchestration using EKS or ECS.
- Preferred experience in product-led engineering organizations where engineers own outcomes.
Benefits
- Annual base pay ranges from $172,466.00 to $258,700.00 USD.
- In-person work averages a minimum of three days per week in the office, with individual flexibility.
- Short-term incentive bonus opportunity and eligibility for an equity-based long-term incentive program for salaried roles.
- 401(k) plan, paid vacation and holidays, paid leaves, and medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision benefits.
- The position is at-will and benefits and compensation programs are subject to applicable plan terms and company policies.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDockerFastAPIGitHub ActionsKubernetesMongoDBNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactTailwind CSSTerraformTypeScript
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About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines for patients and healthcare systems. Its portfolio spans oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (expanded by the 2021 acquisition of Alexion). Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, generating revenue primarily from drug sales and partnerships.