# Principal Software Engineer – AI Systems for Engineering Workflows

This role owns the technical vision and execution for applying AI at scale across DevOps and productization workflows, with a mandate to fundamentally improve how software and firmware are built, tested, released, and operated. The position sits at the intersection of AI systems, developer platforms, and operational excellence, driving the design and rollout of intelligent, automated pipelines that move beyond static CI/CD toward predictive, self-healing, and data-driven execution. The focus is on replacing high-cost manual processes with scalable AI-powered mechanisms, improving end-to-end quality and velocity, and enabling reliable delivery across large, multi-team engineering environments. Success in this role requires operating at platform and ecosystem scale, setting architectural direction, and ensuring AI-enabled systems are secure, observable, governable, and resilient in long-lived production environments. In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be: Lead the design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions for building, test, and release workflows of software products using approved enterprise technologies and enterprise-ready solution patterns. Identify engineering workflows

- **Id**: 924188
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/emerson-principal-software-engineer-ai-systems-for-engineering-workflows>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:30:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7933
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible time off, Health insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Automation, Manufacturing & Industrial Software

## Company

- **Id**: 179425
- **Name**: Emerson
- **Domain**: emerson.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/emerson>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 187
- **Ghost share**: 0.021
- **Stale share**: 0.46
- **Repost share**: 0.059
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 4
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 24000
- **Max usd**: 60000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 74

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T04:58:00Z

## Visa

- Country: IE; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Irish employment permits in 12 months: 27; Filings 12m: 27
- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 6; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 6 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.276
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:5, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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