Principal AI Engineer at DrFirst Inc.
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$175,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
UNAVAILABLE
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior engineering role focused on designing and shipping production AI automation systems that integrate with enterprise platforms across HR, Finance, Legal, and Marketing departments. The work is primarily individual-contributor coding — Python/FastAPI backends, Next.js frontends, multi-agent orchestration, and AWS/Kubernetes deployments — with a smaller portion dedicated to mentoring a small engineering team and guiding non-technical stakeholders. Best suited to a seasoned engineer with deep full-stack and LLM API experience who wants to stay close to the code.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,850 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 540–3,300
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title contains no explicit seniority level ('AI Automation Engineer' or similar is implied from context); the title states no level. The actual requirements — 8+ years, Staff/Principal IC experience, end-to-end ownership of production systems — firmly support Senior.
The role is explicitly Remote-First and US-based (Central time zone preferred; Poland also considered). No specific US metro is identified, so CBSA fields are left blank.
Daily use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or similar) is called out as a 'Hard requirement' and 'Non-Negotiable' in its own section, so it is marked required. Claude (Anthropic) experience is described as 'highly valued' — marked preferred.
PostgreSQL and DynamoDB appear in the Technical Stack narrative section rather than the Required qualifications block, so they are marked preferred.
Tailwind CSS appears only in the Technical Stack section, not in the Required qualifications block — marked preferred.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is listed under Preferred qualifications — marked preferred.
Healthcare/regulated industry experience (HIPAA, SOC 2) is listed as a required qualification but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per the generic-concepts rule.
The role has no direct reports and no performance reviews; the 20% leadership component is servant/technical mentorship only. This is an IC role, not a people-management role, consistent with 15-1252.
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