Senior Principal AI Engineer

Job Description: This position is a senior-level role responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software systems across multiple projects. The position emphasizes architectural leadership, technical mentorship, and strategic collaboration to drive innovation, ensure consistency, and align solutions with organizational goals Job Description: Serve as the most senior individual-contributor engineer and principal technical authority within the Commercial AI Center of Excellence (CAI CoE), owning the technical vision for AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) enablement at enterprise scale. Operate as a full-spectrum AI engineer fluent across the entire lifecycle — data, model training and fine-tuning, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and production operations — able to go as deep as any specialist and to compose the pieces into coherent, production-grade systems.

This role requires both traditional AI/ML, GenAI product engineering, and traditional software architecture skillsets. Establish reference architectures, paved-road patterns, and enterprise technical standards for agentic orchestration, tool and MCP design, retrieval, model training, and responsible AI across production systems. Lead the most complex, ambiguous, cross-team initiatives spanning multiple value streams, and review and influence AI designs across product teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

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