Principal Engineer - MCP or ACP Layer (API & AI Orchestration)

Join ABC Fitness and become part of a culture that’s as ambitious as it is authentic. Let’s transform the future of fitness—together!

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We believe great work begins with great people. That’s why our culture is built on respect, trust, and belonging. We create an inclusive environment where every team member can bring their authentic self to work—because diverse perspectives drive innovation and meaningful impact.

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We are doers, thinkers, and dreamers. At ABC Fitness, your growth is our investment. Through continuous learning, mentorship, and professional development opportunities, we empower you to reach new heights—personally and professionally.

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ABC Fitness is building an intelligent platform for the fitness industry, with AI embedded into the products, workflows, and decision points our customers rely on every day. Our strategy is focused on using AI to automate routine work, personalize experiences, surface actionable insights, and help operators move from reactive management to proactive, data-informed execution. We are investing in the platform, data, and product capabilities required to deliver secure, scalable AI experiences that improve efficiency, strengthen engagement, and drive better business outcomes.

As a Principal AI Engineer, you will serve as a senior individual contributor and technical leader responsible for building the MCP / ACP connectivity layer that enables AI agents to safely and reliably interact with ABC’s business systems. This layer acts as the translation and orchestration plane between core APIs and autonomous agents, transforming complex business logic into structured, agent-consumable tools.

You will architect and build the platform services, orchestration patterns, schemas, and control mechanisms that enable scalable AI execution across ABC Fitness. This is a highly hands-on platform engineering role for someone who combines deep distributed systems expertise with practical experience designing reliable AI orchestration and agent execution systems in production.

We’re looking for a senior individual contributor who can independently lead delivery of an LLM feature area, including eval strategy and production readiness.

All applicants must be able to work from our Hyderabad office 2-3x a week

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Architect, build, and evolve the MCP / ACP ecosystem that exposes ABC Fitness capabilities as standardized, agent-consumable tools.

Design schemas, tool definitions, and abstraction layers that shield AI agents from the complexity and inconsistency of underlying systems while providing clean, structured, hallucination-resistant interfaces.

Define and implement reusable orchestration patterns for multi-step AI workflows, including tool use, validation, retries, state management, fallback handling, and long-running execution flows.

Build for deterministic execution by ensuring AI-driven tool interactions are predictable, safe, observable, auditable, and reversible where necessary.

Establish company-wide standards for AI interaction patterns, structured outputs, input/output validation, schema governance, and agent orchestration workflows.

Design and implement security, permissions, and access control patterns specifically for non-human actors and autonomous systems, including auditability, rate controls, and operational boundaries.

Build instrumentation and observability capabilities that trace agent interactions, identify schema friction, measure execution quality, and improve orchestration success rates over time.

Partner closely with API modernization, platform engineering, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams to define AI-ready integration patterns and ensure scalable production operations.

Lead technical design reviews and influence architecture decisions across teams building AI-native systems on the platform.

Define and document reusable patterns, reference implementations, SDKs, and paved paths that accelerate safe AI adoption across ABC Fitness.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Typically 10+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise building distributed backend systems, APIs, orchestration layers, or platform infrastructure; experience in the broader 8–14 year principal range is most aligned for this level.

Proven experience designing and operating high-scale backend systems with strong understanding of state management, concurrency, reliability, and distributed execution patterns.

Strong understanding of how LLMs interact with tools and workflows, including schema design, structured outputs, predictable execution patterns, and orchestration reliability.

Deep expertise in abstraction design and wrapping legacy or complex systems with clean, scalable, and reusable interfaces.

Experience building workflow orchestration systems handling retries, failure states, long-running processes, and multi-step execution logic.

Demonstrated ability to define technical standards and influence engineering direction across multiple teams through architecture, design review, and strong engineering judgment.

Strong production mindset, including experience designing for observability, operational resilience, auditability, scalability, and performance optimization.

Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with Engineering, Product, Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and SRE teams.

A growth mindset and strong learning agility in a rapidly evolving AI and platform engineering landscape.

A One Team orientation: able to enable other engineering teams, establish scalable paved paths, and create reusable platform capabilities rather than isolated solutions.

AND IT'S GREAT TO HAVE

Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), ACP patterns, LangChain, LangGraph,