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Principal AI Engineer II

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-26 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define and advance AI engineering strategy, architecture, and standards to develop, deploy, and scale production-grade AI solutions across the enterprise.

Role type

Principal AI Engineer (Strategy & Architecture)

Builds

Secure, scalable, reusable AI platforms, services, developer tools, and components

Domain

Life Sciences / Pharmaceutical / Cloud Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AI platform engineering, AWS systems design, production-scale ML system operations, regulated environment experience, risk management, stakeholder influence, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Enterprise AI governance, MLOps, open-source contributions, cross-functional product leadership

Technologies

AWS, CI/CD, containerization, microservices, APIs, observability tools

Responsibilities

Define AI engineering strategy and roadmaps; Architect scalable AI platforms and services; Lead production-grade AI solutions from ideation to retirement; Integrate AI with enterprise data and security environments; Establish practices for testing, versioning, and operational support; Apply risk-based approaches to compliance and responsible AI; Mentor engineers and advance engineering maturity

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