# Principal Staff Engineer, AI Platform Research, Data Science (Remote)

Hiring organization: [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/090532d0-706a-462e-837e-385f8e7c5156

Listed on CrowdStrike's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: USA - Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 195000 – 290000 USD per year

## Summary

CrowdStrike seeks a hands-on principal engineer to design and deploy data infrastructure for AI-driven security products, with emphasis on LLM integration, agentic workflows, and systems operating at exabyte scale. This role combines individual coding excellence with technical leadership and mentorship, ideal for someone who wants to architect cutting-edge AI platforms while staying deeply involved in implementation.

_Our summary, not CrowdStrike's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Airflow, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Docker, Go, Google BigQuery, Java, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, Python, Rust, Snowflake, SPARK

## Required

- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related STEM field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of progressive data engineering or platform engineering experience
- At least 3 years architecting and building AI/ML platforms at massive scale
- Hands-on experience with LLM engineering, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and deployment
- Experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to write clean, performant, well-tested code
- Staff-level engineering role experience with technical leadership and mentorship
- Experience leveraging AI for secure code development

## Nice to have

- Prior experience in cybersecurity, intelligence, or high-compliance industries
- Open-source project contributions related to data or AI/ML

Apply on CrowdStrike's site: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Remote/Principal-Staff-Engineer--AI-Platform-Research--Data-Science--Remote-_R29540