# Principal AI-Native Software Engineer

This is a full-time onsite role based in the location(s) posted and is performed from the designated work location five days per week. No relocation is offered. We’re looking for a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer who can turn complex business needs into intelligent, production-ready software. You’ll work at the intersection of software engineering, agentic AI, LLM-powered applications, and enterprise automation, partnering directly with business and technical stakeholders to move ideas rapidly from concept to production. You’ll build scalable Python services, APIs, agentic workflows, and integrations that enable intelligent automation across AT&T. This is not simply an AI experimentation role. We’re looking for an engineer who knows how to combine emerging AI capabilities with proven software engineering practices to deliver solutions that are secure, reliable, observable, maintainable, and built for production. What You'll Do: Design and build production-grade AI-enabled applications, backend services, and REST APIs using Python and frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django. Create agentic AI workflows using LangGraph or similar frameworks, including tool calling, routing

- **Id**: 4192724
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/att-principal-ai-native-software-engineer-4>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bothell, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T19:45:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:45:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8311
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mobile Networks, Broadband

## Company

- **Id**: 1753140
- **Name**: AT&T
- **Domain**: att.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/att-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Radancy

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 125
- **Ghost share**: 0.016
- **Stale share**: 0.104
- **Repost share**: 0.064
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 25
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155400
- **Max**: 261100
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 261100

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Celery** — Optional: yes
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T19:45:58Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 518 · green card filings: 217; Filings 12m: 518

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T22:30:03Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 261100
- **Is top pay**: yes

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