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NVIDIA is seeking an outstanding engineer in conversational AI to join our AI for Games team. We are developing next-generation gaming solutions enriched with AI Assistants, Actors, and Agents, and we are looking for outstanding engineers to help us achieve this vision. If you are passionate about generative AI, language models, conversational pipelines, and their applications in games, this is the opportunity for you. Collaborating with other teams across the company, you will productize promising research and develop new features through your own work. What you'll be doing: Use AI to solve product challenges in gaming and other interactive experiences. Build upon the latest research to create world-class conversational pipelines for AI assistants and agents. Improve and fine-tune language models and retrieval-augmented generation solutions for accuracy and performance. Build prototypes to demonstrate real-life applications of your ideas and to accelerate productization. Collaborate with NVIDIA's internal and external teams, including AI/DL researchers, hardware architects, and software engineers. Participate in technology transfers to and from teams across NVIDIA. What we need to see: PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, or related fields; or equivalent experience. 12+ years of work experience with last 5+ years focused on language models, AI assistants, and agents. Proficiency in C, C++, and Python, with the ability to write high-performance production code. Experience with GPU programming, CUDA, and system optimizations is a significant plus. A track record of proven research excellence, demonstrated through presentations, demos, or publications at leading venues such as GDC, ICCV/ECCV, SIGGRAPH, or other research artifacts such as software projects or significant product development. AI-powered machines can learn, reason, and interact with people, thanks to GPU deep learning. We offer competitive salaries and great benefits as a top tech employer with leading talent. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 425,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 16, 2025.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Computer graphics is undergoing its most significant transformation since the invention of the GPU. Neural Shading represents the convergence of AI and traditional rendering, opening unprecedented possibilities for real-time visual experiences that were once thought impossible. At NVIDIA, we're not just observing this revolution-we're leading it. Our Neural Graphics team sits at the epicenter of this transformation, where pioneering research meets world-changing products used by millions of developers and creators worldwide. Through innovations like Slang-our open-source language and compiler for portable real-time graphics programming-we're enabling developers to seamlessly integrate AI-driven neural techniques into graphics workloads, continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible when AI meets graphics. We're looking for an outstanding Principal Engineer to be a driving force in this evolution. You'll bring diverse thinking and deep expertise in generative AI and simulation technologies to our production team, serving as the crucial bridge between breakthrough research and shipping products. This is your opportunity to define an entirely new field while working with unlimited compute resources, the latest hardware, and the brightest minds in graphics and AI. Does this sound like you? If you're passionate about pushing boundaries and want to impact computer graphics, this role offers an outstanding opportunity to invent the future of visual computing! What You'll Be Doing: * Define and drive NVIDIA's Neural Graphics technology strategy, setting company-level technical directions for AI-driven rendering * Pioneer state-of-the-art neural shading techniques that integrate with traditional graphics pipelines * Connect research and product teams to develop modern concepts into production-ready technologies * Drive progress in AI innovation for real-time graphics and simulation technologies * Collaborate across teams to influence hardware design and establish technical standards for neural shading * Drive patent development and IP strategy while making technical decisions crucial to major product success What We Need to See: * Degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, or equivalent experience * 15+ years of proven experience with a sustained history of remarkable technical contributions, or equivalent outstanding achievements * Extensive knowledge of real-time rendering, neural networks, and physics simulation * Background in world models, neural content generation, or AI technologies redefining entertainment, graphics, and media creation * Track record of successful technology transfers from research to shipping products * Proven track record to lead complex technical projects across teams and take research from concept to production Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd: * Experience covering fields like graphics, AI, physics, with a background in emerging areas such as neural radiance fields or differentiable rendering * Non-traditional background bringing fresh approaches and interdisciplinary expertise from fields like neuroscience or materials science * Industry recognition as a leader with a point of view through conference presentations, awards, or contributions to graphics/AI projects Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 248,000 USD - 391,000 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 24, 2025. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. **Required technical and professional expertise** * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed [1] our principles and they resonate with your professional values. References Visible links 1. **************************************** IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. Preferred technical and professional experience * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values. ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** The Principal Engineer for Terraform Core Platform and Providers is a senior technical leadership position tasked with solving the most ambitious, complex technical and organizational challenges related to the foundation of Terraform's open source project and its provider ecosystem. You will act as a force multiplier, operating with an intentionally broad and flexible mandate to define and guide the evolution of the Terraform Core engine, the configuration language (HCL), the state management system, and the Provider Protocol This role requires a blend of deep domain expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles, highly scalable distributed systems, and the ability to define the technical standards for millions of Terraform users and thousands of integrations Key Responsibilities As a Principal Engineer, your engagement will be dynamic, utilizing the six roles defined in the Principal Engineer Engagement Framework (IPG). Your core responsibilities, mapped to the engagement model, include: Role Category Focus Area Description Setting Strategic Direction (Sponsor & Catalyst) Core Engine Strategy Lead and own the delivery and architectural definition of major shifts in Terraform's core functionality, such as new language features, provider extensibility models, or cross-product standards. Drive new, ambiguous ideas for core performance improvements or architectural refactoring from concept to organizational buy-in. Providing Architectural Guidance (Guide & Advisor) Protocol and API Design Serve as a deep domain expert on Terraform's internals, providing sustained, ongoing architectural guidance to multiple Core and Provider teams. Produce exemplary technical artifacts and RFCs that define the future of the Provider Protocol and Terraform's interaction model. Ensuring Execution Quality (Catcher & Participant) Stability and Performance Quickly analyze and rescue troubled projects related to core stability, state management bugs, or performance regressions under tight deadlines. Actively contribute hands-on when necessary, engaging in coding, detailed design reviews, and unsticking highly complex technical blockers within the Terraform CLI. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Experience: Extensive experience in software development, architecture, and distributed systems, with a proven track record of shipping complex, large-scale projects. * Technical Depth: Deep expertise in systems programming (e.g., Go), compiler design or language parsing (e.g., HCL), and low-level IaC concepts, including state management and distributed consensus patterns. * Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple teams. * Communication: Exceptional communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, strategic roadmaps for both technical and non-technical audiences. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM products and services IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. Preferred technical and professional experience * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. Preferred technical and professional experience * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. Preferred technical and professional experience * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values. ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. Preferred technical and professional experience * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values. ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** The Principal Engineer for Terraform Core Platform and Providers is a senior technical leadership position tasked with solving the most ambitious, complex technical and organizational challenges related to the foundation of Terraform's open source project and its provider ecosystem. You will act as a force multiplier, operating with an intentionally broad and flexible mandate to define and guide the evolution of the Terraform Core engine, the configuration language (HCL), the state management system, and the Provider Protocol This role requires a blend of deep domain expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles, highly scalable distributed systems, and the ability to define the technical standards for millions of Terraform users and thousands of integrations Key Responsibilities As a Principal Engineer, your engagement will be dynamic, utilizing the six roles defined in the Principal Engineer Engagement Framework (IPG). Your core responsibilities, mapped to the engagement model, include: Role Category Focus Area Description Setting Strategic Direction (Sponsor & Catalyst) Core Engine Strategy Lead and own the delivery and architectural definition of major shifts in Terraform's core functionality, such as new language features, provider extensibility models, or cross-product standards. Drive new, ambiguous ideas for core performance improvements or architectural refactoring from concept to organizational buy-in. Providing Architectural Guidance (Guide & Advisor) Protocol and API Design Serve as a deep domain expert on Terraform's internals, providing sustained, ongoing architectural guidance to multiple Core and Provider teams. Produce exemplary technical artifacts and RFCs that define the future of the Provider Protocol and Terraform's interaction model. Ensuring Execution Quality (Catcher & Participant) Stability and Performance Quickly analyze and rescue troubled projects related to core stability, state management bugs, or performance regressions under tight deadlines. Actively contribute hands-on when necessary, engaging in coding, detailed design reviews, and unsticking highly complex technical blockers within the Terraform CLI. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Experience: Extensive experience in software development, architecture, and distributed systems, with a proven track record of shipping complex, large-scale projects. * Technical Depth: Deep expertise in systems programming (e.g., Go), compiler design or language parsing (e.g., HCL), and low-level IaC concepts, including state management and distributed consensus patterns. * Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple teams. * Communication: Exceptional communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, strategic roadmaps for both technical and non-technical audiences. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM products and services IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. **Required technical and professional expertise** * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed [1] our principles and they resonate with your professional values. References Visible links 1. **************************************** IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. Preferred technical and professional experience * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. Preferred technical and professional experience * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values. ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. **Required technical and professional expertise** * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed [1] our principles and they resonate with your professional values. References Visible links 1. **************************************** IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. **Required technical and professional expertise** * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng) Role Summary We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers. In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow-driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities. Team Overview You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features. The team's dual mandate is: * Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation * Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions Key Responsibilities Using HashiCorp's Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives: * As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership): * Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow * Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform. * Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation" * As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver): * Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc). * Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests * Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil. * As a Guide (Technical Authority): * Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights. * Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust * Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst) * AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants * Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative * Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs * Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies. Preferred technical and professional experience * Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. 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Introduction A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. Your role and responsibilities The Core Data organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate the foundational services necessary for the reliable lifecycle of data and the secure orchestration of autonomous agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. We are building an intelligent, governed, agent-driven control plane-a unified solution that combines the strengths of HashiCorp's products with the IBM suite to securely connect and govern autonomous software agents across the enterprise IT landscape. We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Engineer to define and drive our long-term technical success across the organization. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. This Principal Engineer will be instrumental in bridging the technologies of HashiCorp and IBM to deliver a unified, compelling solution that addresses the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. * Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. * Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. * Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. * Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. * Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact. Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations. * Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. * Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued. * Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs. Preferred technical and professional experience * Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision. * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers. * Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams. * Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight. * Have experience using HashiCorp products. * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind. * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution. * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others. * You've reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values. ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world. IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.