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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.

Top skills:Cloud Computing

Open Principal Engineer roles (6)

Apply for Principal Engineer at Elevance Health on their siteElevance Health

Principal Engineer

Elevance Health

Atlanta, GA

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Apply for Principal Engineer at Jabil on their siteJabil

Principal Engineer

Jabil

Chihuahua

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Intel

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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Micron Technology

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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Intel

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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Likely next role (15)

Where Principal Engineers commonly go next: Director of Engineering, Distinguished Engineer.

Apply for Distinguished Engineer at Elevance Health on their siteElevance Health

Distinguished Engineer

Elevance Health

Chicago, IL

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Apply for Director of Engineering at Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation on their siteMarriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation

Director of Engineering

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation

Sheraton Steamboat Resort Villas

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Shake Shack

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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NVIDIA

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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The Home Depot

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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Columbia Sportswear

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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Comcast

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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Broadcom Inc.

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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Roles similar to Principal Engineer (280)

From Distinguished Engineer, Engineering Manager, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Software Architect, Staff Engineer.

Apply for Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo on their site

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Duolingo

New York, NY

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Apply for Engineering Manager, GPU Infrastructure at Cohere on their site

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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Apply for Engineering Manager, Billing Platform at Sentry on their site

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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Apply for Distinguished Engineer at Elevance Health on their siteElevance Health

Distinguished Engineer

Elevance Health

Chicago, IL

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Apply for Staff Engineer at Shipt on their siteShipt

Staff Engineer

Shipt

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Apply for Engineering Manager at Jabil on their siteJabil

Engineering Manager

Jabil

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Apply for Senior Manager, R&D at Crusoe on their site

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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Apply for Software Architect at Taskrabbit on their site

Software Architect

Taskrabbit

San Francisco, CA

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Apply for Engineering Manager at Confido on their site

Engineering Manager

Confido

New York, NY · $260,000 – $320,000

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Apply for Software Architect at LexisNexis Risk Solutions on their site

Software Architect

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Alpharetta, GA

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