# Principal Engineer, AI Platform

Are you a technical leader who thrives at architecting agentic AI systems and shipping them in production? Do you want to help define how autonomous, tool-using AI agents get built into a real, customer-facing product? If so, we invite you to apply to join our AI Platform team, where we're building the future of investment management software. As a Principal Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will guide the architecture and development of Ridgeline's agentic AI platform while also directly contributing to product delivery. You'll help drive the design of the agentic systems, workflows, and capabilities that power our product, including how those agents access external data and use models efficiently, all in close partnership with the engineers who built the platform's foundation. This role offers broad, cross-company impact, working across teams throughout the firm to shape how AI capabilities are built and adopted, in a collaborative, high-agency team culture. What will you do? Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for Ridgeline's AI platform and shared AI capabilities across the company. Lead technical decisions that enable engineering teams across the firm to u

- **Id**: 944072
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ridgeline-principal-engineer-ai-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Ramon, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T17:55:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:03:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6111
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Asset Management & Funds, Financial Software & Embedded Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 1547962
- **Name**: Ridgeline
- **Domain**: ridgeline.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ridgeline>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.571
- **Repost share**: 0.143
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 58
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 253000
- **Max**: 316000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 316000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **Kotlin** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **Oracle ERP** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T19:47:16Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-16T17:11:53Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-16T21:52:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 4

## Liveness

- **Score**: 64
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.848
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 58
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 316000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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