AI Principal Engineer
Voya Financial, Inc3 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of complex AI solutions, including LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and model-driven services.
- Own technical direction for major AI platform components, products, or functional domains.
- Establish engineering practices for model evaluation, validation, testing, monitoring, and operationalization.
- Translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions with product, business, and data stakeholders.
- Contribute to architecture decisions involving model selection, system integrations, API design, and platform scalability.
- Ensure AI solutions meet security, privacy, governance, and responsible AI standards.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Identify technical risks and dependencies, develop mitigation strategies, and drive delivery across multiple initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field is required.
- Significant experience designing, developing, and delivering production AI/ML systems is required.
- Experience deploying, operationalizing, and maintaining AI/ML models in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or Rust.
- Experience with AI/ML frameworks, large language model technologies, and modern data pipelines.
- Deep understanding of model lifecycle management, MLOps practices, and production reliability principles.
- Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives with significant business impact.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking capabilities, with effective cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Advanced degree in a related field is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise-scale generative AI, RAG, vector databases, AI orchestration frameworks, cloud-native AI platforms, distributed systems, regulated industries, responsible AI, model risk management, AI compliance, mentoring, and technical strategy.
Benefits
- Fully remote with no regular in-office requirement.
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
- 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions of up to 6%.
- Employer-paid Voya Retirement Plan with a 4% cash balance contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year.
- 20 days of paid time off, nine paid company holidays, and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- 40 hours of paid volunteer time per calendar year.
- Annual base salary range of $149,820 to $198,370 for listed locations, plus potential incentive opportunities.
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About Voya Financial, Inc
Voya Financial is a public financial services company providing retirement plan recordkeeping, employee benefits, and investment management to employers, individuals, and institutions. It earns fees and premiums from workplace benefits, savings and investment products, and asset management through Voya Investment Management. Founded in 2014 after ING U.S. rebranded, the company is headquartered in New York and trades on the NYSE under the ticker VOYA.