Principal Software Engineer

Job overview

The Principal Software Engineer role is listed in Saint Louis, MO; the description also states that the position is 100% remote within the employee’s home country. Compensation is not specified. The role supports Nerdy’s Live + AI learning platform, which connects learners and tutors through human expertise and generative AI. The principal engineer sets technical direction across teams and designs scalable systems, including AI-powered capabilities. The role advances platform reliability and engineering quality through architecture, hands-on development, responsible AI practices, and mentorship.

What you'll do

• Set organization-wide architectural strategy and guardrails
• architect scalable systems and AI solutions
• productionize machine-learning and large-language-model systems
• establish responsible AI safeguards
• drive performance, scalability, resiliency, SLOs, and observability
• contribute hands-on code, design reviews, documentation, testing, and continuous delivery
• partner with product, data science, design, and engineering leaders
• mentor engineers and managers
• participate in on-call and incident response.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal software engineer

software architecture

generative ai

machine learning

distributed systems

cloud systems

rag

mlops

saint louis mo

nerdy

remote within home country

on-call participation

full-time

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Flexible time off
• paid local holidays
• learning membership for employee and household
• access to AI tools
• training and peer reviews
• remote work within home country.

Why this role

Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading technical direction across multiple teams. The posting specifies on-call participation and remote work from the employee’s home country.

About the employer

Nerdy is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Training. Sector: 61.