Principal AI Operations Engineer

3 days ago

North Chicago, IL, USAStaff+

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$142k - $269k/yr

Responsibilities

Architect patterns that help AI delivery teams deploy AI and ML models to solve business problems.
Develop and configure model registries and experiment-tracking systems.
Set up model-drift detection and observability patterns.
Create reusable templates and patterns for rapidly creating projects.
Create centralized CI/CD workflows across ML and AI projects.
Set up feature stores and online feature serving.
Design cloud architectures for ML and AI problems.
Enforce code-quality and data-quality standards while ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
Initiate and drive projects with minimal oversight and guidance.

Bachelor's degree with 9 years of experience, master's degree with 8 years, or PhD with 4 years.
Experience in ML/AI engineering, data science, or AI platform engineering.
Experience with advanced SQL, Python, Spark, and a broad array of ML frameworks.
Experience architecting advanced analytics and data science platforms.
Experience with data lakes such as Iceberg or Delta.
At least 2 years of GenAI application development, LLM prompt engineering, RAG-based solution architecture, chatbots, and AI agents using unstructured and structured data.
At least 3 years of developing and deploying cloud solutions in AWS or Azure with large datasets and streaming data architectures.
At least 3 years of using MLflow for model registry, experiment tracking, and model validation.
Preferred qualifications include pharma data experience, ML/AI or AI platform consulting experience, and at least 5 years in the listed ML/AI engineering, data science, AI platform, SQL, Python, Spark, analytics platform, and data lake areas.
Ability to operate as a self-starter, work through ambiguity, and initiate and drive projects with minimal oversight.

Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, vacation, holidays, sick leave, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.
Eligible to participate in long-term incentive programs.
Travel is approximately 5% of the time.