Principal -Product Engineering

Description

As Principal AI Engineer, you will lead the technical design and development of AI agent systems and LLM-powered capabilities. You’lloperate at the intersection of applied research, systems design, and strategic customer engagement. While your day job includes architecting scalable, production-ready AI components, your role also spans into guiding enterprise customers—serving as a thought leader in pre-sales, executive briefings, and AI strategy workshops. 
 

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership 

Architect and implement advanced AI agent frameworks using LLMs (e.g. GPT, Claude, open-weight models). 

Design end-to-end systems and solutions that integrate planning, memory, retrieval, and tool usage within AI agents. 

Lead model evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and RLHF efforts where necessary. 

Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate AI capabilities into platform features. 

Customer & Pre-Sales Engagement 

Partner with Sales, Product, and GTM to articulate AI strategy and solution architecture to enterprise clients. 

Participate in pre-sales meetings, technical deep-dives, and AI innovation workshops with C-level stakeholders. 

Translate customer needs into solution blueprints involving agents, LLMs, and AI workflows. 

Represent the company in conferences, webinars, and thought-leadership forums as an AI expert.

Requirements:

Must-Have 

PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or related field. 

7+ years of industry experience in AI/ML, with at least 2 years focused on LLMs and/or AI agents. 

Strong programming skills in Python and experience with frameworks such as LangChain, Transformers, Ray, or similar. 

Experience building production systems using LLMs (RAG, agentic workflows, orchestration, tool use, etc). 

Exceptional communication skills and a proven ability to present complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences. 

Experience in client-facing roles or pre-sales technical advisory. 

Nice-to-Have 

Experience with enterprise AI deployment (e.g., compliance, privacy, scalability). 

Publications or public talks in AI, NLP, or agentic systems. 

Contributions to open-source LLM/agentic frameworks. 

Why You'll Love Sprinklr:

We're committed to creating a culture where you feel like you belong, are happier today than you were yesterday, and your contributions matter. At Sprinklr, we passionately, genuinely care. For full-time employees, we provide a range of comprehensive health plans, leading well-being programs, and financial protection for you and your family through a range of global and localized plans throughout the world.

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We focus on our mission: We founded Sprinklr with one mission: to enable every organization on the planet to make their customers happier. Our vision is to be the world’s most loved enterprise software company, ever.
 

We believe in our product: Sprinklr was built from the ground up to enable a brand’s digital transformation. Its platform provides every customer-facing team with the ability to reach, engage, and listen to customers around the world. At Sprinklr, we have many of the world's largest brands as our clients, and our employees have the opportunity to work closely alongside them.
 

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