Principal AI Engineer

West Des Moines, IA, US • Posted 12 days ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Contract Independent
On-site
USD $150,000.00 - 160,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Impact Analysis
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Architecture
  • Design Architecture
  • Leadership
  • IT Management
  • Roadmaps
  • Mentorship
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Innovation
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Management
  • Data Architecture
  • Training
  • Cloud Computing
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Google Cloud
  • Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops)
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Scalability
  • Collaboration
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Decision-making
  • Databricks
  • SQL
  • Data Processing
  • Privacy
  • Marketing

Summary

Location: West Des Moines, IA
Salary: $150,000.00 USD Annually - $160,000.00 USD Annually
Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Seeking a highly accomplished Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise scale AI and Machine Learning solutions. This role requires deep technical expertise in AI/ML, strong architectural vision, hands-on leadership, and the ability to drive AI strategy across the organization. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with advanced ML systems, GenAI/LLM solutions, and end to end AI platform development.

Key Responsibilities

AI Strategy & Technical Leadership

Define and drive the organization's AI roadmap, architecture, and long-term technical vision.

Lead and mentor AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams.

Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption of GenAI, LLMs, MLOps frameworks, and AI platforms.

AI/ML Architecture & Innovation

Architect scalable, high-performance machine learning and GenAI solutions for NLP, CV, predictive analytics, and automation.

Design and optimize LLM-powered systems, including RAG pipelines, fine-tuned models, and enterprise AI assistants.

Develop reusable AI frameworks, components, and internal toolkits to accelerate organization-wide AI development.

End-to-End AI System Development

Oversee full lifecycle: data architecture, feature engineering, experimentation, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.

Build large-scale, cloud-native AI systems using Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform.

Establish standards for model quality, reliability, interpretability, and governance.

MLOps & Platform Engineering

Architect robust MLOps pipelines-CI/CD, model versioning, drift detection, automated retraining, monitoring.

Lead the development of AI platforms supporting multiple business teams and workloads.

Ensure production environments meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.

Cross Functional Collaboration

Partner with executives, product teams, and business leaders to identify AI opportunities.

Translate complex business problems into scalable AI solutions.

Represent AI architecture in technical reviews and decision-making processes.

Databricks, SQL, and data processing frameworks.

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  • Dice Id: cxjudgpa
  • Position Id: 1119823
  • Posted 12 days ago

Company Info

About Judge Group, Inc.

The Judge Group, is a leading professional services firm specializing in talent, technology, and learning solutions. We consult, staff, train, and solve. Through our work we make people and organizations better.

Our services are successfully delivered through a network of more than 30 offices across the United States, Canada, and India. The Judge Group is proud to partner with the best and brightest companies in business today, including over 60 of the Fortune 100. We serve organizations in financial services, healthcare, life sciences, insurance, government (including aerospace and defense), manufacturing, and technology and telecommunications.

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