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Principal Engineer
A Principal Engineer is one of the most senior individual-contributor technical roles in an engineering organization, responsible for defining system architecture and driving scalability and performance engineering decisions across multiple teams. They provide technical leadership and cross-team mentorship, often setting standards for cloud computing adoption and guiding major technical investments company-wide. This role is typically held by a highly experienced engineer with 10+ years of experience who influences engineering strategy at a level comparable to a director, without direct management responsibilities.
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Principal Engineer
Elevance Health
Atlanta, GA
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Principal Engineer
Jabil
Chihuahua
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Principal Engineer, Hybrid Bonding Module
Intel
Full-time · Hillsboro, OR · $211,400 – $298,440
A Principal Engineer role leading the development and manufacturing scale-up of hybrid bonding technology for advanced semiconductor packaging. This position suits experienced process engineers with deep expertise in wafer bonding, equipment development, and high-volume manufacturing who can drive innovation across chiplet and advanced packaging architectures.
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Principal Engineer, APTD
Micron Technology
Boise, ID
A Principal Engineer role shaping advanced semiconductor packaging technology roadmaps and investment priorities at Micron's Boise campus. This suits experienced packaging technologists who can balance technical innovation with business strategy and influence senior leadership on competitive positioning.
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Principal Technical Director, AI-Enabled Spectrum Dominance
Voyager
Washington, DC
This is a senior technical leadership role directing RF systems, AI-driven design workflows, and spectrum dominance capabilities for a defense technology company. It suits experienced RF and systems engineers with deep space-based payload expertise who can bridge advanced R&D with productization while pioneering AI-native hardware design methodologies.
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Principal Engineer - Standard Cell Design
Intel
Full-time · $220,920 – $311,890
Intel is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the design and optimization of standard cell libraries that form the foundation of their semiconductor products. This role combines deep circuit design expertise with technical leadership, requiring someone who can drive innovation in power, performance, and area optimization while mentoring engineers and collaborating across product and technology teams.
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Where Principal Engineers commonly go next: Director of Engineering, Distinguished Engineer.
Distinguished Engineer
Elevance Health
Chicago, IL
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Director of Engineering
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation
Sheraton Steamboat Resort Villas
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Director, Core Digital Platforms
Shake Shack
Full-time · Atlanta, GA
Lead the architecture and operations of Shake Shack's core digital platforms serving thousands of restaurants and millions of guests, owning systems from payments to AI to guest-facing kiosks. This role suits a seasoned platform engineering leader who can balance strategic vision with hands-on technical decisions while building and mentoring a strong team.
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Director, Autonomous Vehicles Platform
NVIDIA
Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $320,000 – $488,750
Lead the development of vehicle and sensor abstraction layer software that enables autonomous driving systems to interface with real-world hardware at scale. This role suits experienced engineering directors who want to architect the foundational software bridging perception and control in self-driving vehicles.
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Director, Cash-In Engineering Partner
LSEG
Lead engineering strategy and delivery for billing and cash-in platforms across a global financial infrastructure group, modernizing legacy systems while managing complex vendor relationships and large engineering teams. Ideal for an experienced director comfortable with deep technical expertise in Oracle and SAP billing systems who can balance platform transformation with operational excellence.
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Director Product and Engineering
The Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
A director role overseeing product development and engineering for Home Depot's private brands, managing new product launches across categories and leading a team of five engineers. This suits someone with 7+ years in mechanical, electrical, chemical, or manufacturing engineering who has led cross-functional projects and can translate technical work into business strategy.
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Director, Infrastructure Engineering
Columbia Sportswear
Full-time · Portland, OR
Columbia Sportswear seeks a Director of Infrastructure Engineering to lead the strategy and modernization of their global cloud and on-premises infrastructure, partnering with architecture and security teams to support the company's worldwide retail and ecommerce operations. This role suits an experienced leader who combines deep technical knowledge with the ability to develop teams and balance long-term modernization against day-to-day operational needs.
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Director, Software Engineering & Architecture - FreeWheel
Comcast
Chicago, IL · $172,261 – $258,392
This is a director-level engineering leadership role responsible for building and managing the software engineering organization supporting FreeWheel's audience data ingestion and measurement platforms. It suits experienced engineering leaders who can balance strategic architecture decisions around cloud data infrastructure with the people management and budget ownership needed to scale a high-performing team.
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Director of Engineering – vSphere Kubernetes Service
Broadcom Inc.
USA-CA - Promontory B · $174,400 – $279,000
Broadcom is hiring a Director of Engineering to lead the vSphere Kubernetes Service platform and guide the company's strategy within the Kubernetes and CNCF communities. This role suits experienced engineering leaders with deep cloud-native expertise who want to shape both a major product and industry direction.
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Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
Vercel
Full-time · New York, NY · $240,000 – $300,000
Lead the building and scaling of a forward-deployed engineering organization that embeds directly with Vercel's strategic customers to architect and deliver production applications. This role suits someone with a track record of building customer-facing engineering teams from the ground up and the commercial savvy to define engagement models, pricing, and delivery excellence.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Duolingo
New York, NY
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Engineering Manager, GPU Infrastructure
Cohere
Full-time · United States, Canada · CA$330,000 – CA$400,000
Lead a team of engineers building and operating GPU infrastructure that powers frontier AI models at scale. This role suits experienced managers with deep ML/HPC infrastructure expertise who want to shape the technical backbone of enterprise AI systems.
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Engineering Manager, Billing Platform
Sentry
San Francisco, CA · $220,000 – $450,000 · Remote
Lead a team of engineers building billing and pricing systems at Sentry, managing distributed systems that handle measurement, pricing, and invoicing at scale. This role suits engineering managers with strong technical foundations who want to balance technical strategy with team leadership in a product-critical area.
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Distinguished Engineer
Elevance Health
Chicago, IL
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Staff Engineer
Shipt
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Engineering Manager
Jabil
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Senior Manager, R&D
Crusoe
Full-time · Denver, CO · $132,000 – $165,000
Crusoe seeks an operational leader to build and scale their R&D team while managing technology evaluation programs and infrastructure partnerships. The role suits experienced people managers comfortable with hybrid responsibility—splitting time between team building, hiring, and direct program management in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company.
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Software Architect
Taskrabbit
San Francisco, CA
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Engineering Manager
Confido
New York, NY · $260,000 – $320,000
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Software Architect
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Alpharetta, GA
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