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Principal Software Engineer - IT

Talent Software Services, Inc.
  • Round Rocks, TX
  • $70–$80 Per Hour
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2 days ago

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer(AI Software Engineer / AI Agent Engineer)
Location: Round Rock, TX (Onsite)
Duration:12 Month on W2 Contract

Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and deploy AI-powered capabilities across the SDLC, including:
  • Spec Driven Development workflows that support the translation of well-formed specifications into secure, verifiable implementations
  • Assurance of AI-generated code - guardrails, policy enforcement, and verification for code produced by AI assistants and agents
  • SDLC skills and agent tooling - developer-assist skills as well as verification skills that perform automated security checks (design review, dependency and supply-chain analysis, static/dynamic analysis orchestration, release audit support)
  • Integrate solutions with enterprise systems - source control, CI/CD, ticketing, security scanning, identity, and internal platforms - through APIs, webhooks, and protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Partner with engineering, security, product, and leadership stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and support solution adoption
  • Apply sound architecture and systems design practices: well-defined service boundaries, appropriate data models, secure defaults, observability, and extensibility

Required Skills and Qualifications
  • Demonstrated experience developing and deploying AI-based solutions in production environments, with measurable business or operational impact
  • Strong programming proficiency (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or similar) and adherence to software engineering best practices, including testing, code quality, and maintainability
  • Hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM development, including:
  • Context engineering - designing what informs the model's context window, including agentic retrieval and search, memory architectures, grounding in enterprise data, and structured outputs
  • Agentic system design - agent loop engineering, multi-agent and sub-agent orchestration, and tool/function calling
  • Context window management and token budgeting, including cost and latency optimization for production workloads
  • Evaluation of AI system quality, reliability, and safety
  • Solid understanding of software architecture and systems design, including API design, event-driven
  • patterns, and data modeling for scalability and extensibility
  • Experience developing and/or deploying applications with large-scale impact (broad user base, high transaction volume, or organization-wide adoption)
  • Experience integrating with multiple systems and platforms (REST/GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, enterprise tooling)
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently across the full delivery lifecycle - requirements analysis, solution design, implementation, deployment, and stakeholder engagement - with accountability for results
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both
  • engineering and business audiences
  • Working knowledge of secure development practices and experience designing solutions that meet enterprise security and compliance requirements

Preferred Skills and Qualifications
  • Experience applying AI within a security domain - application security, DevSecOps, code analysis, threat modeling, firmware security or software supply-chain security
  • Familiarity with secure-by-design / secure-by-default principles and relevant frameworks (e.g., OWASP, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications; NIST SSDF)
  • Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), building agent skills and tools, or extending AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Devin)
  • Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, prompt/response caching strategies, and LLMOps in production
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical

Numbers & Facts

LocationRound Rocks, TX
Salary$70–$80 Per Hour

Skills

  • Adoptionunmatched
  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Budgetingunmatched
  • Business Operationsunmatched
  • Cachingunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Programmingunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Cost Controlunmatched
  • Data Modelingunmatched
  • Dynamic Analysisunmatched
  • Enterprise Architectureunmatched
  • Enterprise Protectionunmatched
  • GitHubunmatched
  • Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
  • GraphQLunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • JavaScriptunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionalunmatched
  • Machine Toolunmatched
  • Memory Hardwareunmatched
  • Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
  • Operational Measurementunmatched
  • Production Systemsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
  • Regulatory Complianceunmatched
  • Requirements Managementunmatched
  • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
  • Search Agentunmatched
  • Security Designunmatched
  • Software Architecture Designunmatched
  • Software Developmentunmatched
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Source Code Control System (SCCS)unmatched
  • Static Analysisunmatched
  • System Integration (SI)unmatched
  • Systems Reliabilityunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched

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