Principal AI Engineer - Hybrid in Bangalore

About the role

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking.

What you'll do

• Set the architecture for the agent harness and sub-agent framework including orchestration, lifecycle, hand-off contracts
• Design and own schema/ontology, ingestion and freshness pipelines, and the retrieval and grounding patterns that keep agent responses reliable
• Build and maintain a reference agent framework that teams fork or extend, so no team re-solves orchestration, tracing, or deployment from scratch
• Stand up fast, slim prototypes to de-risk architecture decisions (new sub-agent patterns, retrieval strategies
• Define deployment, security, and governance patterns, including the standard path from prototype to production and the AI governance plane applied across platforms and…

What you need

• Databricks
• AWS
• MLOps
• LLMs
• Prototyping
• Instrumentation
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Unity