Principal Applied AI Engineer
Appian Corporation , United States +1
The role
Location: Remote (US)
Lead the engineering of software that matters — driving AI automation for the world's largest enterprises.
As a Principal Applied AI Engineer, you will serve as the technical linchpin for applied AI on the team, bringing deep hands-on expertise in designing and operating production LLM systems and a track record of influencing engineering direction beyond your immediate scope. Equipped with cutting-edge AI tooling, you will drive the design and delivery of high-complexity AI systems — spanning code generation, agents, retrieval, structured generation, tool use, model routing, evaluation, and observability — set the technical bar for the team, and lead other engineers towards solutions of real complexity to ensure flawless Enterprise-Grade Orchestration.
The team
Appian Engineering spans the full depth of our platform: