Principal Agentic AI Engineer

What's the role?
We are looking for a Principal Agentic AI Engineer to drive the architecture and hands-on delivery of the platform that lets AI agents reason about and act on the physical world. You will define technical direction for how agents consume our location intelligence reliably, at scale, and across environments, and build the core capabilities that make that possible in production.
This role combines deep hands-on engineering with applied judgment about real-world model behavior, cost, and reliability. You will operate with broad scope, influencing multiple teams through technical leadership and cross-functional alignment.
Main responsibilities:

• Architecture and system design: Own the design of core platform capabilities that expose location intelligence to AI agents through clean, standardized interfaces. Design reusable, decoupled components and scalable patterns that many teams and use cases build on

• Execution and integration: Build the layer that turns complex, natural-language location intent into deterministic, decision-grade results. Integrate multiple services, data sources, and interaction patterns into cohesive, reliable systems

• Performance, cost, and edge: Optimize for latency, cost, and reliability, including deployment in constrained and edge environments such as automotive. Analyze trade-offs between accuracy, cost, and latency, and make pragmatic engineering decisions

• Reliability and evaluation: Design evaluation strategies, benchmarking, and reliability patterns that prove correctness and performance against alternatives

• Technical leadership: Lead technical reviews and decision-making, retire architectural risk, and act as a force multiplier through design guidance, mentoring, and strong engineering standards. Explain complex trade-offs clearly to engineering, product, and executive stakeholders

Who are you?
Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience as a senior or principal engineer delivering production-grade agentic systems end to end, from design through rollout and operations

• Experience with agentic systems, including evaluation, reliability, and safety patterns

• Strong Rust and Python (Rust especially valued), with experience across ML frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: system design, distributed systems, API design, observability, and performance optimization

• Hands-on experience with modern LLM engineering: prompting and orchestration patterns, tool and function calling, and building systems that let LLMs act reliably through structured interfaces

• Ability to lead through influence: drive alignment, communicate trade-offs, and make high-quality technical decisions
• Mandatory hands-on use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering to increase productivity

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cost-aware LLM serving, caching, and latency optimization at scale

• Experience deploying to constrained or edge environments (automotive a plus)

• Familiarity with location-based services, navigation, or geospatial data

• Familiarity with model adaptation techniques ( e.g. LoRA / QLoRA ) for narrow, cost-sensitive tasks
• Open-source contributions, publications, patents, or recognized technical leadership in AI/ML

What we offer?

• The opportunity to tackle meaningful and challenging problems
• A chance to continuously learn and stay on top of the latest technology trends
• Work that has real-world impact, shaping the future of mobility and technology
• Regular feedback to help you grow and succeed in your role
• A collaborative and supportive team environment where your contributions are valued
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working environment
• Medical coverage for you and your family
• This role is eligible for Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland" or KUP (Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu)
• Option to work on a B2B contract (please note: benefits, bonus and KUP do not apply in this case)

Change is HERE. Apply Now!
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Life at HERE in Poland comes with a competitive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and performance. This includes a base salary, a Short-Term Incentive (STI) bonus (percentage based on role), a creative tax advantage for eligible positions, private medical care (including dental), life insurance, a meal allowance, vision reimbursement, a remote work allowance (if applicable), access to MyBenefit and Multisport programs, and various wellbeing initiatives. Paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave are provided in accordance with the Polish Labor Code.
As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. This will involve employment, education, and criminal verification if applicable.
HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Who are we?
HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.
At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people's lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.