Principal AI Engineer
Knoxville, TN - USA
Job Summary
Organizational Alignment
This position reports to the Senior Manager AI & Innovation and is part of C2 Labs AI & Innovation organization. The AI & Innovation team is responsible for developing AI-enabled compliance solutions digital workers enterprise copilots and compliance automation capabilities. This role is focused on product and platform engineering rather than traditional IT operations and will work closely with AI architects compliance subject matter experts product managers and customer delivery teams.
Position Summary
C2 Labs is seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to help build and operate the next generation of AI-enabled compliance solutions. This role serves as a foundational member of the AI & Innovation team and will support the development of AI agents compliance automation workflow orchestration and platform integrations that power our advisory services. The ideal candidate combines cloud engineering DevOps automation API integration and AI platform experience.
Key Responsibilities
Deploy and manage AI platforms supporting enterprise copilots AI agents and digital workers.
Implement and maintain Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) infrastructure.
Deploy and manage vector databases and enterprise knowledge systems.
Develop and maintain integrations with RegScale APIs and other enterprise platforms.
Integrate AI services with Microsoft Copilot Studio Power Platform Azure AI Services OpenAI Anthropic and related technologies.
Develop automation workflows using Power Automate and API-first architectures.
Design and maintain cloud-native infrastructure supporting AI and automation workloads.
Manage Kubernetes Docker CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
Implement secure deployment pipelines for regulated environments.
Support development of compliance automation workflows for evidence collection POA&M management and continuous monitoring.
Monitor AI platform performance observability logging and operational health.
Required Skills
Experience deploying and supporting AI applications in production environments.
Experience with LLM APIs including OpenAI Azure OpenAI Anthropic or AWS Bedrock.
Experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph CrewAI or AutoGen.
Understanding of RAG architectures vector databases and semantic retrieval.
Strong Python development skills.
Experience developing and integrating REST APIs.
Experience with Kubernetes Docker Terraform CI/CD and cloud-native architectures.
Experience integrating SaaS platforms and enterprise systems.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Strongley Preferred
Experience with RegScale ServiceNow GRC Archer eMASS Xacta or similar GRC platforms.
Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio Azure AI Power Platform and Power Automate.
Experience supporting government or regulated industry customers.
Familiarity with continuous monitoring compliance automation and cybersecurity operations.
Education and Experience
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field.
5 years of DevOps Platform Engineering Software Engineering or Solution Engineering experience.
2 years supporting AI automation or machine learning platforms in production environments.
U.S. Citizenship preferred. Ability to obtain and maintain government suitability requirements as needed.
Why Join C2 Labs
Youll have the opportunity to shape a first-of-its-kind AI-powered compliance platform that combines intelligent agents enterprise knowledge systems and automation to transform how organizations achieve and maintain compliance in highly regulated environments.
EEO STATEMENT:
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without discrimination based on race color religion sex national origin age disability or protected veteran status. Employment offers will be contingent on passing a pre-employment drug screen.
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