8th Light is looking for a Principal Engineer to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth for their clients by optimizing digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise.
Requirements
- Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
- Evaluated and strategically applied AI-assistive development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics)
- Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
- Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
- DevSecOps & DevOps
- MLOps
Responsibilities
- Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
- Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
- Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
- Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
- Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization
- Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development.
- Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices.
Other
- You’ve shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years.
- You are a trusted expert and leader, often called upon to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions.
- You bring a blend of deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking that drives measurable and impactful outcomes.
- Facilitated alignment and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders to move initiatives forward in the face of ambiguity and complexity while balancing technical considerations with product and user needs
- Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices
