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# Principal AI Engineer - Java at ApTask

Compensation

$170,000 – $200,000/yr

**Location**
: New York, New York

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 1, 2026

## Description

The role is a senior AI software engineer focused on designing and productionizing agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, tool-calling agents, reliability and governance controls, evaluation frameworks, and cost and latency optimization. The position requires extensive Python and backend systems experience, production LLM and agent-system experience, cloud and DevOps expertise, and strong software engineering leadership. The stated salary range is $170,000–$200,000 annually.

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