MaintainX

Technology

PrincipalAIPlatformEngineer

$220–350k ~AI est. United States; Canada FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“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.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

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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