Most companies are running AI pilots. We are rebuilding how our companies actually operate.
Ionic Partners is a holding company with a portfolio of operating businesses. We are not adding AI features to products or rolling assistants out to employees. We are rebuilding the operating systems of entire business functions — engineering, support, finance, marketing, revenue operations — as agentic systems that do the work, in production, every day.
We are looking for Principal AI-Native Engineers to build them.
This is not a plan we are pitching. Agents already write and review code inside our engineering pipeline. Our own orchestration framework is what those systems run on, and it is on its second generation because the first one taught us what breaks. The knowledge our agents work from is maintained as structured, machine-readable artifacts rather than scraped from wikis, because we learned early that context quality sets the ceiling on everything else. Every hard-won lesson in that sentence cost us something. You will inherit all of it,
and the next set of lessons is yours to learn.
This is a central team, deliberately flat, that builds agentic systems for every company in the portfolio. There are no internal layers, no leads, and no junior tier. Everyone on it is a principal-level builder reporting directly to the executive who owns the mandate. Scope is concentrated rather than distributed: each engineer carries an unusually large share of the outcome and an unusually direct line to the decisions that matter.
You will not be starting from scratch. We already run a production agentic platform in-house — our own orchestration framework, machine-readable context artifacts that give agents grounded knowledge of our products and customers, and automated development and QA agents working inside our engineering pipeline. Your first job is to ramp into a live system that real businesses depend on. Your ongoing job is to extend it, harden it, and use it to make each n