Principal AI Software Engineer, TechEx (US)
West MonroeBase Salary
$152k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and monitor AI agents that automate workflows and enhance platform intelligence.
- Develop advanced prompting strategies for LLMs including Claude, GPT, and Gemini.
- Own AI features end to end from ideation and prototyping through production deployment and monitoring.
- Collaborate with clients, technical architects, product, engineering, and design teams to define requirements and align solutions with business and user needs.
- Integrate AI solutions with backend services and APIs using technologies such as Java, React, and AWS.
- Ensure AI systems are scalable, secure, and compliant.
- Mentor junior team members, provide reviews, and contribute to client recommendations and project delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required.
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Expertise with object-oriented concepts.
- Experience integrating AI tools such as ChatGPT into workflows and evaluating outputs for accuracy, bias, and quality.
- Experience with several listed backend, frontend, mobile, database, cloud, AI tooling, source control, DevOps, package management, and testing technologies.
- Experience mentoring junior team members and providing reviews.
- Strong written, verbal, organizational, interpersonal, analytical, and client communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative Agile/Scrum environment and communicate in English.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage for employees and families.
- 401k plan, employee stock ownership program, and eligibility for annual bonuses.
- Unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays.
- Ten weeks of paid parental leave eligibility upon hire.
- Salary varies by proximity to a West Monroe office, with listed ranges from $152,200 to $205,900 USD.
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About West Monroe
West Monroe is a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating value for our clients. We co-create solutions that accelerate results now and prepare industries to tackle what’s next. We’re excited by the possibilities that technology creates. We work with our clients to deliver on the possible, building on their goals, generating fresh insights and creating inspiring outcomes. We excel at the intersection of industry, strategy, people and technology—always driving rapid impact. Our all-in approach comes from our unique employee ownership structure. Our clients’ success is our success. From the beginning, our growth has come from putting people at the center. Fortune and USA Today consistently celebrate West Monroe as a top workplace, and we’re recognized as a leading consultancy by Forbes and Forrester. Share our passion at westmonroe.com.