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Mastech lists this Artificial Intelligence Engineer opportunity in covington, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
🚀 Hiring: Principal AI Engineer | Covington, KY | Onsite
We’re looking for a hands-on Principal AI Engineer to join a brand-new AI engineering organization building innovative GenAI/LLM solutions for a leading financial services organization.
This is a greenfield opportunity where you’ll help shape the technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and AI capabilities from the ground up.
Location: Covington, KY
Work Model: Onsite (5 Days in a week)
Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
What You'll Do
• Architect and build production-grade AI/GenAI applications from concept through deployment
• Develop solutions using LLMs, AI agents, RAG, semantic search, and workflow automation
• Design scalable enterprise AI platforms and distributed systems
• Partner with product, business, data science, architecture, and engineering teams to identify high-value AI use cases
• Establish engineering best practices and technical standards for a new AI organization
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams
• Build secure, reliable, cloud-native applications at enterprise scale
• Translate emerging AI capabilities into practical business solutions that improve productivity and automate workflows
🧠 Top Skills
1️⃣ AI & LLM Engineering
OpenAI
Claude / Anthropic
Gemini
AWS Bedrock
LangChain
LangGraph
CrewAI
Python
AI Agents / Agentic AI
RAG
Prompt Engineering
Workflow Automation
2️⃣ Data Engineering & AI Data Foundations
Snowflake
Databricks
Data Pipelines
ETL / ELT
Pinecone
Weaviate
Chroma
Semantic Search
Knowledge Retrieval
Enterprise Data Architecture
3️⃣ Cloud Architecture, Scale & Security
AWS / Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Microservices
Cloud-Native Architecture
Distributed Systems
Security & Scalability
⭐ Ideal Background
We’re looking for someone who is more than an AI developer — you should be a Principal-level technical leader who can architect, build, and take AI solutions into production.
The ideal candidate brings:
✅ Strong GenAI/LLM engineering experience
✅ Hands-on experience building RAG and agentic AI solutions
✅ Strong Python/software engineering background
✅ Enterprise data engineering experience
✅ Cloud architecture and distributed systems expertise
✅ Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code
✅ Strong architecture and system-design skills
✅ Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
✅ Ability to work directly with business and product stakeholders
✅ Experience taking AI solutions from POC → production
Example AI Use Cases
The team will work on solutions such as:
• Automated meeting preparation and research
• Intelligent call summarization and insight generation
• Automated follow-up and workflow orchestration
• Enterprise knowledge retrieval and recommendation systems
• AI-assisted decision support
• Productivity and workflow automation using enterprise data
Interview Process
2–3 rounds
Initial Zoom/phone screen
Technical interview with engineering/architecture team
Product/business discussion
If you're a Principal/Staff-level AI Engineer who wants to help build an AI organization from the ground up, I'd love to connect.
Interested? Send me your resume on or apply on this job post.
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Worksite address
covington, KY, 41011, US
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