[Hiring] Principal AI Engineer @Able

Role Description

As our Principal AI Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of production AI systems that solve real business problems for our partners and shape how Able builds.

• You were a Technical Founder, Co-founder, or founding engineer at an AI company.
• You have the scar tissue of taking something to market and learning why product-market fit is hard.
• You will set the technical bar for AI at Able, working at the spec and acceptance layer of an AI-native engineering model.
• You will play a key role in establishing Able as a leader in the AI space.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building AI/ML systems, with production experience shipping and operating them.
• Fluency with the modern LLM stack: frontier models, RAG, vector databases, agentic frameworks, and the evals and guardrails that make them trustworthy in production.
• You operate in the spec-and-harness model, leveraging agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) at the spec and acceptance layer.
• Demonstrated experience leading large and complex projects.
• Proven experience integrating ML and generative models with existing web and mobile applications.
• Innate ability to effectively interact and inspire our partners and executive stakeholders on new AI ideas.
• Demonstrated skill in connecting business challenges to the potential benefits of AI, and effectively communicating those opportunities to non-technical audiences.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication.

Requirements

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with a strong focus on AI and Machine Learning (Nice to Have).
• Experience with MCP, graph-based retrieval, or multimodal pipelines (Nice to Have).

Benefits

• Work 40 hours per week, and be available during normal business hours as needed.
• Payments made in USD.
• 18 days of PTO per year, observance of local holidays, and an annual break between Christmas and New Years.
• A monthly wellness stipend and snack boxes delivered to your home.