Lead company critical AI and software architecture at Dropbox, shaping customer experiences for millions through durable technical strategy. Remain hands on across complex systems and platforms.

As a Principal Engineer, you will own ambiguous technical problems with multiyear impact across technology, product, business strategy, and applied AI. You will define long term direction, architect foundational platforms, and guide responsible AI adoption across products and engineering workflows. The work requires broad expertise spanning frontend, backend, distributed systems, and production machine learning.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define technical strategy for critical company objectives
- Architect platforms supporting hundreds of millions of users
- Lead responsible AI adoption across products and workflows




- Implement foundational software components where leverage is highest
- Align roadmaps across organizations and resolve structural bottlenecks

Requirements:

- 15+ years designing large scale software systems
- Principal level ownership of company critical technical problems
- Experience with ML, LLM APIs, and agentic frameworks
- Expertise across distributed systems, databases, storage, or frontend
- Advanced Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience

Shape Dropbox’s AI powered foundations through architectural judgment, hands on development, and influence across global engineering organizations.

📌 Principal AI Software Architect (Canada)
🏢 Dropbox
📍 Canada