Principal Engineer

10 hours ago

London, Ontario, Canada RSight® Full-time

An exciting opportunity to join our client's team at a company specializing in AI product strategy, design, and engineering since 2006, dedicated to transforming innovative ideas into production-ready solutions. We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join this organization.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship production-grade platforms and reusable software foundations.
  • Deliver high-quality maintainable software across diverse languages and frameworks.
  • Lead platform strategy and architecture for scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.
  • Collaborate on full ML lifecycle systems including data ingestion, preprocessing, and model deployment.
  • Mentor teams, transfer knowledge, and improve engineering practices.
  • Drive innovation by surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions.
  • Advise on architecture and scalability to align technical decisions with business outcomes.
  • Facilitate alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Design and manage technical roadmaps for large engagements.
  • Contribute to 8th Light's culture and represent it in the tech community.

Requirements

  • Build and ship production-grade platforms, reusable foundations, and workflows.
  • Deliver solutions across multiple programming languages and frameworks like Java, Python, TypeScript, and Scala.
  • Develop and deploy AI/ML features including recommendation engines, NLP, and computer vision.
  • Lead modernization and replatforming efforts aligning with business needs.
  • Architect scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions addressing performance and observability.
  • Collaborate on full ML lifecycle systems from data ingestion to performance monitoring.
  • Experiment with AI development tools to enhance team delivery speed and quality.
  • Apply architectural patterns to drive clear design rationale.
  • Integrate agentic frameworks and RAG pipelines into production systems.
  • Advise on DevSecOps, MLOps, and infrastructure as code practices.

In addition to the salary, the company offers the following benefits

  • A robust L&D programme featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
  • Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development
  • Co-working support for our global team
  • 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees
  • Hybrid way of working (1 day per week in office)

What is RSight

RSight is a next-generation recruitment solution, committed to the values of fairness, transparency, and human-centric hiring. RSight aims to redefine recruitment, putting people and potential at the heart of every opportunity.