Udig
Principal Consultant, Engineering
Nashville, TN or Richmond, VA · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$14kDetected 6 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentData EngineeringAI OrchestrationDesign SystemsIntellectual PropertySystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- As a Principal Engineering Consultant at UDig, you operate at the apex of technical delivery.
- You're the technical anchor on the firm's most demanding client work - and a force multiplier for the consultants around you.
- Join UDig - Where Consulting Meets Innovation.
Responsibilities
- Design and govern AI-native delivery models for engagements: defining agent orchestration patterns, establishing quality governance (including Human-Above-the-Loop controls), and ensuring that AI-accelerated delivery doesn't trade off against reliability.
- Build reusable intellectual property: orchestration patterns, MCP connectors, governance frameworks, and delivery templates that accelerate every engagement that follows.
- Lead cross-functional technical collaboration across software, data, and platform workstreams in complex enterprise environments.
- Serve as a senior client advisor - guiding technology strategy, building trust with CTO- and VP-level stakeholders, and helping clients understand what's possible and what it takes to get there.
- Mentor and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants, including structured feedback, growth conversations, and hands-on technical coaching.
- Advanced command of AI-native engineering: you've designed or operated agentic workflows in enterprise level environments, understand the four-layer stack (model strategy, integration, orchestration, governance), and can articulate tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to build reusable, transferable delivery assets - not just solving problems on a single engagement, but creating patterns that make UDig better at the next one.
- A failure-first design instinct - you plan for graceful degradation, de-risk through spikes and proofs, and build systems that can evolve without full rewrites.
- Our team collaborates directly with clients, taking a consultative approach to turning complex challenges into successful projects that deliver business value.
- If you're ready to dig into your first career chapter and build alongside people who take the craft seriously, let's talk.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Advanced degree or equivalent experience welcome.
Skills
- Contribute to pre-sales conversations by helping frame solutions, scope engagements, and communicate UDig's technical differentiation.
Compensation
- $123,250 - $189,750 USD
- The good-faith base salary range for this role is listed below, reflecting the amount UDig is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
- The specific sublevel and salary offered will be determined by the candidate's skills, relevant experience, qualifications, and internal equity.
- The range reflects base salary only.
- Competitive Compensation - Strong salary, performance-based bonuses, and career progression.
Benefits
- Investment in You - $1,500 annual training budget, mentorship, and hands-on learning.
- Comprehensive Benefits - PTO, parental leave, 401(k) match, health, dental, vision, and more.
- Own technical vision and architecture across large-scale, multi-workstream client engagements - setting direction, resolving ambiguity, and making the calls that others can execute against.
- This role is also eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include a cash bonus, along with a comprehensive set of health and financial benefits.
Company info
- At UDig, we're more than consultants - we're problem solvers, mentors, and innovators.
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