Unity
Principal Engineer, Enterprise AI — Technical Fellow Office
$180K–$342K
New York, NY, USA · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on engineering in software development, system design, or architecture.
About the job
Sets enterprise AI technical direction and drives adoption of production AI platforms, evaluation practices, and cost controls across teams.
What you'll do
- Set architecture and model strategy, lead design reviews, and advise teams on AI decisions and risks.
- Build and promote AI platforms and tooling; define evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, and cost telemetry for AI systems.
- Evaluate emerging AI models and techniques, prototype strategic ideas, contribute hands-on, and periodically embed with business functions.
What they ask for
- Applied experience with modern LLMs and agentic systems, including context engineering, tool use, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Track record taking AI capabilities from prototype to production with evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails.
- Evidence of adoption of platforms or tooling across teams and of influencing technical decisions without authority.
- Strong background in scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and data-intensive platforms.
Pay
Zone A: $179,500 - $269,300 USD gross (base salary); Zone B: $202,800 - $304,200 USD gross (base salary); Zone C: $227,900 - $341,900 USD gross (base salary)
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Enterprise AI: production AI and agentic systems, platform adoption, model evaluation and quality controls, cost management, and emerging AI techniques.
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