Senior Principal AI Engineer – AI Center of Excellence

About the role

The AI Center of Excellence seeks a Senior Principal AI Engineer to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable AI infrastructure supporting LLM training, inference, and emerging AI capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Define technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards for enterprise AI platforms.
• Lead the evolution of HPC, GPU/accelerated compute, rack‑scale systems, private/hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and AI services.
• Design infrastructure for LLM training, model serving, agentic AI orchestration, and emerging AI workloads.
• Address performance, scalability, and reliability challenges through prototyping and performance engineering.
• Establish patterns for observability, automation, capacity management, security, and operational readiness.
• Embed security, privacy, Responsible AI, governance, compliance, and auditability into the platform.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and influence roadmap decisions.
• Lead cross‑functional initiatives and mentor engineers.

Required profile

• Extensive experience in AI engineering, high‑performance computing, platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven track record architecting and operating secure, mission‑critical platforms at enterprise scale.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills, able to engage senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Required skills

• High‑performance computing (HPC) and GPU/accelerated computing.
• Rack‑scale systems architecture.
• Private and hybrid cloud environments.
• Kubernetes and cloud‑native platform engineering.
• High‑speed networking and storage technologies.
• Infrastructure automation, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Security, privacy, governance, and compliance for AI workloads.
• Experience with LLM training, inference, and agentic AI platforms.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary with potential annual bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Generous paid leave, parental leave, and vacation time.
• 401(k) with company match and deferred compensation options.
• Fitness reimbursement or on‑site facilities, tuition reimbursement, and more.