MaintainX
Technology
PrincipalAIPlatformEngineer
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“Principal AI Platform Engineer at MaintainX. Skills: AI Platform, Agent architecture, LLM systems, Developer experience. Define Agent/Skill/Tool architecture. Evolve platform for agent reasoning”
What You'll Achieve.
Produce long-term outcomes; Align executives on platform strategy; Hold leaders accountable for adoption
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Reasoning; Planning; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years software engineering, 3+ years ML/LLM systems, Company-wide technical leadership, Internal platform experience, Python backend expertise, Write clear design documents
Nice to Have
Production agentic systems, MCP, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, RAG pipelines, vector databases, Embedding strategies, knowledge graphs, B2B SaaS experience, Industrial software experience, IoT/OT experience
What You'll Do.
Define Agent/Skill/Tool architecture
Evolve platform for agent reasoning
Discover and reuse skills
Design for progressive autonomy
Architect retrieval systems
Build developer experience
Own agent orchestration
Build MCP tool registry
Build reproducible dev environments
Build observability layer
Build evaluation systems
Drive cross-division alignment
Partner with product engineering teams
Represent MaintainX engineering
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-division alignment; Partner with product engineering
Communication Scope
Design documents; Technical decisions; External representation
Full Job Description
MaintainX is the world's leading AI-powered maintenance and asset management platform, serving 13,000+ customers including Duracell, Shell, Cintas, and Brenntag. We raised $150M in Series D funding https://www.getmaintainx.com/newsroom/maintainx-raises-150m led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing our total funding to $254M. We were named to the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100 https://www.getmaintainx.com/blog/maintainx-named-to-2025-forbes-cloud-100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. We're growing fast and hiring the talent to match. ABOUT MAINTAINX MaintainX is the world's leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. We help over 13,000 customers, including Duracell, Shell, Marriott, McDonald's, Volvo, DHL, and AB InBev, reduce unplanned downtime and run more efficient operations. In July 2025 we closed a $150M Series D led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $254M at a $2.5B valuation. We were named to the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2025, and ranked #1 in EAM and CMMS on G2's Summer 2025 report. The market is at a turning point. Manufacturing will need to fill 3.8 million vacant jobs through 2033. Technicians spend roughly 60% of their time on paperwork and research instead of actual wrench work. Most manufacturers expect to adopt AI-driven maintenance at scale by 2027. Our AI Platform is how we make that transition real for the frontline. THE ROLE Our AI Platform is the catalog of Agents, Skills, and Tools that every product engineer at MaintainX assembles to ship AI-powered features. CoPilot, Root Cause Analysis, the Parts Agent, and the Scheduling Agent all run on it. As Principal Engineer, you will own the technical vision for the AI platform and scale it to match our ambition. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to VP of Engineering. You will lead through architecture, high-leverage technic
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