Principal Engineer, AI Engagement Lead

Why this role If you like where you work but want harder problems, faster learning, and teammates who raise your game, read on. Our clients want AI in every system their people use, internal and public, and they want it now. AI-powered development has made it easier to build a precise, integrated app than to wrestle with another dashboard. OCI is hiring Principal Engineers to lead that work from start to finish: discovery, the rollout plan, the proof of concept, and the production build. This is a hands-on, AI-first role. You build with GenAI every day. You can vibe code a stable, lightweight business app in days, and you know when to slow down and engineer it properly. You don't need to be the deepest hand-coder on the team. You do need to be deep enough to judge what the AI produced, and strong enough as an architect to keep it stable in production. Recent engagements like this one GenAI delivery tools for a Fortune 500 payments network An agentic document-QA platform for a community bank AI-accelerated DevOps for an aerospace manufacturer MCP connectors for a central bank What you'll do Run lightweight discovery across a client's core business processes and platforms: finance, HR, customer, productivity, and the data underneath. Shape a company-wide AI rollout plan with the client's executives and agree on what to tackle first. Build the proof of concept yourself, quickly, to show what custom AI-powered apps can do. Lead the follow-on build: set the architecture, hold the