Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – Agentic, MCP

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About the role

  • Principal Software Engineer designing and developing AI applications for Red Hat. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance performance and reliability in AI/ML products.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop a platform for Agentic AI applications.
  • Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Engineering, Product Management, and User Experience to define customer needs and use cases.
  • Collaborate with Quality Engineers to develop and implement comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to guarantee the reliability and performance in the upstream project, maintaining CI/CD workflows in GitHub, and ensuring downstream quality.
  • Participate in AI-assisted code reviews, utilizing tools that provide real-time feedback, identify potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding standards.
  • Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
  • Create and maintain clear, concise upstream technical documentation including API references and user guides.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of advanced Python development experience
  • Advanced knowledge designing robust and scalable software used in highly scaled and performant Distributed Systems
  • Experience with building agents, agentic workflows, or developing with LLMs
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift and operational knowledge building/deploying containers.
  • Experience creating automation for GitHub, using GitHub Actions or related continuous integration tools.
  • Experience developing, deploying or maintaining On-prem or Cloud Infrastructure
  • Advanced knowledge developing unit, functional, and end-to-end (E2E) test cases and automation
  • Ability to quickly learn and use new tools and technologies.
  • Experience with open source projects is a plus.
  • Experience with Security, Observability, Performance or Scale is a plus.
  • Understanding of DevOps methodology, scrum, and/or Jira is a plus.
  • Experience with AI and Machine Learning platforms, tools, and frameworks, such as MLFlow, Llama Stack, LangChain, PyTorch, LLaMA.cpp, vLLM, LangGraph, and Kubeflow is a plus.
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related discipline.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
  • Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
  • Retirement 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
  • Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
  • Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Job title

Principal Software Engineer – Agentic, MCP

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$174,190 - $287,410 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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