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JOB TITLE: Principal Software Engineer - FDE
The Principal Software Engineer - FDE joins the Frontier Company Engineering team to deliver production-ready solutions for complex global organizations. Working in a Forward Deployed Engineering model, you will embed with customer teams to translate business needs into technical solutions, owning the full lifecycle from design to deployment. You will build reliable systems for cloud and AI workloads, ensuring enterprise security standards like threat modeling and privacy are met. Key responsibilities include designing architecture, creating reusable assets, and leading multidisciplinary crews. You must possess expertise in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The role requires experience with AI and LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, and model tuning, while utilizing cloud AI platforms to solve large-scale technical problems.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $208800 from 365 postings across 49 companies.
Build and ship production-ready systems that meet enterprise security, privacy, and compliance standards.
Translate business needs into technical solutions by defining problem statements and architectural approaches.
Own end-to-end system design for cloud and AI workloads while balancing reliability, performance, and cost.
Use CI/CD, automated testing, and observability to deliver high-quality engineering work quickly.
Work directly with customer engineering teams to deliver solutions and ensure large-scale adoption.
Create reusable solution accelerators and reference architectures to maximize impact across different customers.
Coordinate multiple workstreams and manage dependencies to lead complex deliveries end-to-end.
Provide technical direction and coaching to engineers across multiple disciplines.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, and performance monitoring (preferred).
Experience using cloud AI platforms such as Azure ML, OpenAI, or similar (preferred).
Familiarity with deploying and operating AI systems in production environments (preferred).
Python
C#
Java
C++
JavaScript
C
AI
LLM
Prompt Engineering
CI/CD
Observability
Automated Testing
Cloud AI Platforms
Software Design
Security
Data Quality