Principal AI Engineer

Job Title: Principal AI Engineer 

Location: India, Hybrid

• This is a hybrid position, which will require the ability to be onsite in our Bengaluru, India office as needed. Candidates must be based in India.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Clari + Salesloft are building the next era of enterprise revenue - one where teams make confident decisions powered by AI and real signals. By combining our scale, insights, and AI innovation, we’re building the industry’s first Predictive Revenue System, enabling humans and AI to work together to make smarter decisions and drive consistent growth.

With thousands of customers using our platforms every day, we have an unmatched view into how revenue is actually won - the Revenue Context that reveals what happens, when, and with what outcome. This gives us a unique opportunity to transform an entire category and set a new benchmark for how modern revenue teams operate.

Join us to help transform how companies around the world run revenue - and build the platform that will guide leading revenue teams into the future.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

You will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing AI team in India, owning the design and build-out of our Agent Platform - the foundational infrastructure that powers how AI agents are developed and deployed across Clari + Salesloft. We are looking for an experienced Principal AI Engineer who can help realize the Clari + Salesloft vision with their passion and proven track record of excellence and innovation. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about their work and who thrive on leading-edge technologies to develop ground-breaking AI-driven enterprise-grade applications.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for -

• Driving architecture decisions across the AI Platform - MCP server infrastructure, agent orchestration platform, harness engineering, feedback loops, LLM gateway, AI security, guardrails, and evals.

• Technical leadership in design reviews - owning the bar for what goes into production, challenging designs, and pushing for correctness, scalability, and operational readiness.

• Cross-geo architecture collaboration - actively syncing with architects and engineering leads to ensure platform decisions are globally consistent and locally excellent.

• Mentoring and growing the IC bar - providing deep technical feedback to Staff and Senior engineers, identifying growth edges, and elevating the team's collective engineering quality.

• Hands-on technical work - writing design docs, contributing to critical path code, building PoCs for new platform capabilities, and being in the trenches when it matters.

• Driving technical hiring - co-designing interview panels, contributing to machine coding and system design rounds, calibrating the hiring bar for AI Platform roles alongside EM leadership

• Shaping the platform roadmap from the bottom up - partnering with product managers and platform users to translate ambiguous AI platform needs into well-scoped, technically sound engineering plans

• Being the applied AI knowledge hub for the team - staying current on GenAI, agentic workflows, context engineering, foundation model capabilities, and translating that into platform-level decisions

In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our 'team over self' core value, you will also have the opportunity to work on impactful and revolutionary software that is changing the way sellers sell. You will have an opportunity to make a difference.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We're at an inflection point. Our AI platform scope has expanded significantly - from RAG and LLM gateway to now building an MCP platform, harness engineering, agentic orchestration, agentic feedback loops, AI security, guardrails, and eval frameworks. We're also a growing India-first team with real global influence.

We need a Principal Engineer who can set the technical north star for the AI Platform division, bring Applied AI depth that matches our ambitions, and be the IC counterpart to engineering leadership - someone who owns the what and how at the highest level of technical rigor.

This role is parallel to the Senior Engineering Manager for India. You will be the technical authority; they run the org. Together, you shape the division.

If you're looking for an opportunity to learn more, do more, and become more, then becoming a Principal AI Engineer is the career path for you!

THE TEAM:

Clari+Salesloft's Applied AI Engineering organization builds the intelligence layer that powers the entire Clari+Salesloft Revenue platform. The team is responsible for the foundational infrastructure on which all GenAI capabilities are built - from how models are accessed and governed, to how agents reason, act, and are evaluated in production. We ship production AI systems at scale. Our platform surfaces as real product moments for thousands of revenue teams globally and the Principal Engineer owns the technical foundation that makes that possible.

THE SKILL SET:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on platform or infrastructure-layer systems

• Proven experience building and operating AI/ML platforms or agent infrastructure at scale, such as context management, model routing, agent observability.

• Deep familiarity with modern agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and the evolving agentic tooling ecosystem

• Hands-on experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-use and capability-exposure patterns, including gateway or proxy architectures

• Strong understanding of security and access control in agentic systems - including credential management, scoped permissions, and safe agent-to-system interaction patterns

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams and drive complex, multi-stakeholder projects to delivery

• Experience with Python and/or Java; comfort across the full stack of backend systems

• Excellent async-first communication skills - able to work across teams and timezones to align on direction and drive outcomes

At Clari + Salesloft, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone belongs and can thrive. We focus on culture add, not culture fit, and believe our teams are made stronger by the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities each person brings.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you’re excited about this role even though your experience may not perfectly match every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are actively hiring across multiple geographies and would love to welcome passionate, curious, and mission-driven individuals to our growing team. Explore our open roles and consider joining us!

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