Principal AI Workflow Engineer - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$248,000 - $391,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves crafting, developing, and maintaining innovative software solutions for enterprise integration and API ecosystems.
What you'll do
- Develop roadmap and framework for Enterprise Integration, B2B, and API ecosystems, embedding agentic AI capabilities.
- Architect and deliver high-throughput, real-time integration platforms using event-driven, asynchronous, and AI-augmented orchestration patterns.
- Design intelligent, context-aware integration solutions for sophisticated business processes across Operations, Order-to-Cash, Planning, and multi-cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to implement intelligent algorithms and autonomous workflows into production-grade integration systems.
- Orchestrate autonomous, closed-loop integration lifecycles, enabling self-monitoring, self-healing, continuous testing, adaptive updates, and proactive alerting through agentic automation.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related Engineering Degree.
- 15+ years of proven experience in enterprise integration, microservices, integration patterns, and reusable frameworks across heterogeneous systems and partner ecosystems.
- Expertise with SAP Integration Suite, including CPI, API-M, TPM, AI coding assistants like Codex and Claude Code, and workflow automation systems like n8n.
- Experience across the API lifecycle (design, build, governance, and management), with exposure to AI-enabled API orchestration and intelligent routing.
- Strong expertise in integrating distributed enterprise systems such as SAP S/4, IBP, Salesforce, and similar SaaS/Cloud applications through diverse integration patterns, encompassing API-First and Event Driven Architecture.
- Experience with intelligent, distributed integration architectures using REST, GraphQL, and SOAP to support seamless enterprise interoperability.
- Proficient in handling extensive EDI deployments (EDIFACT, ANSI X12, custom EDI, RNIF).
- Strong programming and scripting skills (Java, Groovy, Python, PowerShell), with the ability to integrate agentic workflows into integration pipelines.
- Strong grasp of identity management and access control (authorization frameworks, application keys, SAML protocols, JWT tokens, Certificates).
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, JFrog, along with observability tools like Datadog, Splunk.
Skills: AI Workflow Engineer, Enterprise Integration, API ecosystems, AI-augmented orchestration, microservices, event-driven architecture
This role has been open 30 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 281 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 993 | 6149 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 50 d (−5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: AI Workflow Engineer, Enterprise Integration, API ecosystems, AI-augmented orchestration, microservices, event-driven architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.