Principal System Engineer 2, Multi-Agent AI, AdTech

Job overview

The Principal System Engineer 2, Multi-Agent AI, AdTech role is hybrid in New York City, NY, with two days per week in the office and remote work otherwise. The stated annual salary range is $178,952–$268,307. The role supports DIRECTV’s Advertising Technology ecosystem. The senior individual contributor designs and builds production multi-agent AI systems and collaborative work environments for advertising and media workflows. It provides end-to-end technical ownership across architecture, production code, integrations, evaluation, and governance, connecting business needs to secure and measurable solutions.

What you'll do

• Design and build production multi-agent systems with planners, specialist agents, reviewers, human approval, shared state, memory, and recovery
• define orchestration patterns
• write production code and reference implementations
• build collaborative AI workspaces
• design shared-context patterns and user-facing agent activity
• develop backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and enterprise integrations
• design context and retrieval pipelines
• establish evaluation strategies and observability
• implement guardrails, automated testing, CI/CD, release controls, incident response, and runbooks
• partner with Product, Ad Sales, Operations, Data, and Engineering
• lead architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and manage dependencies and risks
• travel approximately 10%.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal system engineer

multi-agent ai

adtech

hybrid

new york ny

directv

agentic ai

python

distributed systems

enterprise integration

approximately 10% travel

$178,952–$268,307 per year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• The posting describes a total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus, and benefits.

Why this role

Hybrid schedule requires two in-office days per week. Approximately 10% travel. Requires hands-on production experience with agentic AI or generative AI systems beyond proofs of concept.

About the employer

DIRECTV is hiring for this role. Industry: Unclassified (placeholder). Sector: 99.