Principal Software Engineer II

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer II

Location: hybrid - must be able to work on-site in Chicago 2 days/week

This role provides focused technical AI Governance support for company's existing efforts around AI-enabled delivery and software development, including the review of agentic coding solutions and agentic development enablers (i.e., MCP Servers). The Specialist will translate governance expectations into practical engineering guardrails, support risk-based review and approval, and help delivery teams adopt AI capabilities safely, consistently, and at speed.

Key Responsibilities

- Technical AI Governance SME: Provide support to delivery teams adopting AI-enabled delivery tools (ex: agentic coding solutions, agentic workflows)

- Proactive AI Governance Engagement: Translate AI Governance requirements into engineering-ready guardrails, evidence expectations, mitigation options, decision rationale, and approval conditions to company's Portfolio Execution Teams and other relevant business areas during initial ideation, proof of concept, pilot, and pre-AI Governance approval efforts.

- Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with AI Security and other Security verticals to ensure that their specific requirements are accounted for and represented in engineering-ready guardrails and mitigations.

- AI Governance Review Support: Collaborate with AI Working Group members to assess AI solutions leveraged in company's software development and other designed high-risk AI initiatives. Facilitate alignment across Engineering, Security, Architecture, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Portfolio Execution, IT/IS Risk, and business teams to identify risk mitigation requirements, resolve issues, clarify ownership, and move initiatives through review.

- Formalize AI Governance Requirements: Convert AI Governance expectations, SME inputs, and review outcomes into clear, actionable requirements, guardrails, approval conditions, and implementation guidance for delivery teams.

- Identify requirements from AI Governance Working Group stakeholders and SMEs for the domains they own, including AI Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Architecture, IT/IS Risk, and other relevant functions, and ensure those requirements are accurately reflected in holistic AI governance guidance and process documents.

- Create process documents, checklists, FAQs, and decision materials that help delivery teams, SMEs, and leaders understand governance expectations, pilot guardrails, review outcomes, and required next steps.

Required Skills & Experience (must haves)

- 6-10 years of experience in software engineering, technology delivery, architecture, security engineering, or related fields.

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work credibly with technical teams and translate technical risk into business, governance, compliance, and executive-facing language.

- Interest in AI Governance and AI Risk. Able to turn AI risks into clear delivery requirements, including required controls, evidence, mitigations, approval conditions, and audit-ready rationale.

- Working knowledge of AI coding assistants, GenAI tools, agentic workflows, prompt patterns, model/tool limitations, data leakage risks, human oversight, monitoring expectations, and responsible AI practices.

- Hands-on technical background with understanding of application architecture, SDLC controls, CI/CD, APIs, cloud platforms, access models, data flows, and implementation tradeoffs.

About Us:

InterSources Inc , a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007 and offers innovative solutions to help clients with Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 19 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We recognize that our employees and our clients are our strengths as the diverse talents and opportunities they bring to the table enable us to grow as a global platform and they are causally linked with our success. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services, etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or marital status. We also are a Google Cloud partner company. We align strategy with execution and provide secure service solutions by developing and using the latest technologies that thrive our resources to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it convenient for our clients to do business with InterSources Inc. Our teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven client experiences that put the users first, providing an unparalleled experience. This results in strengthening the core technologies of clients, enabling them to scale with flexibility, create seamless digital experiences and build lifelong relationships.