Top Remote Principal Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and mentor an engineering team building GovIntel and GovChannel product capabilities. Own technical direction, design and deliver scalable SaaS features, APIs, integrations, and platform reliability. Partner with Product, QA, Cloud Ops, and stakeholders to prioritize work, drive CI/CD and observability practices, lead reviews and incident response, and apply AI-assisted tools to improve development speed and quality.

The Principal Engineer will shape the technical strategy for messaging infrastructure, influence architectural decisions across teams, and solve complex technical problems. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, driving coherence across teams, and leading initiatives to ensure Weave's competitiveness in messaging solutions.

As a Principal Engineer, you will set the engineering vision, lead technical direction, and drive strategy across enterprise platforms, focusing on developer experience and scalability. Responsibilities include designing solutions, collaborating across teams, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring other engineers, all while ensuring alignment with broader business goals.

The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the design and operation of CI/CD pipelines, platform reliability, and compliance for software deployment, while influencing DevOps practices and simplifying operational management across teams.

The Principal Consulting Engineer ensures solutions meet customer needs, provides technical leadership, manages projects, and drives successful implementations while maintaining operational standards and contributing to best practices.

The Principal Consulting Engineer will implement and support IP-based call center solutions, guide project strategies, and provide technical leadership while collaborating with clients and stakeholders to achieve project goals.

The Principal ML Engineer at Agero will develop and productionize a Dispatch System using ML models, optimize decision-making processes, and lead a team to improve operational performance.

Lead AI strategy and delivery: define technical direction, prototype and ship production AI features, build shared AI platform components (evaluation, retrieval, safety, observability), mentor senior engineers, and drive measurable business outcomes for early education customers.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll architect and code backend services and ML models, integrate them with Salesforce, and mentor junior engineers.

The Principal Engineer will lead the technical ecosystem, ensuring hands-on execution in a high-growth environment, focusing on AI integration and full-stack development.

As a Security Engineer, safeguard Runpod's GPU cloud platform, conduct security assessments, implement fixes, and foster a security-first culture with development teams.

Lead the machine learning strategy, design scalable ML systems, drive MLOps, mentor engineers, and comply with AI governance.

Senior sales engineer for Zscaler's Healthcare Zero Trust Branch. Deliver technical product presentations, gather customer requirements, lead product evaluations and custom configurations, and design evaluation test plans to drive successful cloud-native Zero Trust deployments.

Lead the design of Xsolla's identity platform, develop Golang microservices for user management, and implement security protocols for compliance.

Lead architecture and implement large cross-cutting initiatives on a SaaS grantmaking platform. Produce high-quality full‑stack code (Rails/React/Node), mentor engineers, drive SDLC best practices, and champion AI-assisted development while collaborating with product, infra, and QA teams.

Build, operate, and secure cloud-native and edge infrastructure including Kubernetes, artifact pipelines, application streaming, and air-gapped appliances. Partner with product, GRC, and mission owners to design, deploy, and harden systems, remediate vulnerabilities, support audits (IL5/IL6/JWICS), and ensure trusted artifact delivery across environments.

Senior, client-facing principal to grow New Jersey land remediation practice. Responsibilities include business development, leading complex site investigation/remediation projects, technical oversight and review, NJDEP regulatory coordination with LSRP, project financial and staff management, mentoring staff, and promoting practice growth and technical excellence.

The Principal Engineer will lead AI-driven productivity initiatives, develop a strategy for integrating AI in engineering workflows, and improve collaboration across teams. Responsibilities include executing projects, ensuring code quality, and setting success metrics.

The Principal Engineer will lead the design and development of ML infrastructure, mentor engineers, and provide strategic technical leadership for AI-powered applications in healthcare.

The Principal Consulting Engineer designs, deploys, and optimizes private cloud infrastructures, ensuring solutions meet customer approval and providing technical leadership.

The Principal Consulting Engineer will design, deploy, and optimize VMware Cloud Foundation automation solutions, ensuring they meet customer requirements while leading engagements and providing technical expertise.

The Principal Engineer leads architectural decisions, influences engineering standards, and designs high-complexity systems using ASP.NET, while mentoring teams and integrating AI solutions.

This role leads the ML Acceleration team, focusing on enhancing ML model training efficiency and team management, while driving technical strategy and collaboration.

Lead photolithography process engineering and team for wafer fabrication. Responsibilities include optimizing processes, troubleshooting, and collaborating on tech development.

The Principal Engineer will lead technical strategy, mentor teams, contribute to codebase, manage cloud infrastructure, and enforce security practices.