Software Engineer Principal - Data and Automation Artificial Intelligence (GenAI, API Design)

PNCPittsburgh, PAfull_timeprincipal

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

  • Architect and evolve enterprise GenAI platforms, with a strong focus on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic systems.
  • Serve as a hands-on technical authority for designing and implementing GenAI patterns, including knowledge retrieval, orchestration, tool-using agents, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Partner closely with product, data, architecture, security, and risk teams to ensure GenAI solutions are production-ready, governed, and aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Define and drive platform engineering best practices for GenAI systems, influencing how teams build, deploy, observe, and operate RAG and agent-based solutions at scale.
  • Operate with broad autonomy to solve complex and ambiguous platform challenges, balancing innovation, performance, cost efficiency, and long-term extensibility.

Soft Skills

Business ManagementCustomer SolutionsGroup Problem SolvingProcess ImprovementsProduct And Vendor EvaluationSoftware Process ImprovementSystem Development Life Cycle

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Dental
  • Disability Insurance
  • Employee Stock Purchase
  • Flexible PTO
  • HSA/FSA
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Pension
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Vision
  • Wellness

Culture

Cross-Functional TeamsWork-Life BalanceInclusive HiringCustomer-Obsessed

Requirements

Required: Bachelors
Regions: Us

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