Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Principal-level forward-deployed AI engineer embedded within Expedia Group's business units to identify high-value AI opportunities, translate ambiguous business problems into measurable outcomes, and own the full lifecycle from prototyping to production and adoption.
What you’ll do
- Partner with business-unit leaders and domain experts to discover high-value AI opportunities and define measurable outcomes.
- Own the full lifecycle of AI initiatives from discovery to production deployment, adoption, and value realization.
- Design and architect complex AI-enabled systems, including retrieval, orchestration, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Establish and evangelize software and AI engineering standards across multiple teams, including responsible AI and operational excellence.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, or master's with 10+ years.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex systems or platforms supporting a business unit or function.
- Deep expertise in full SDLC practices including system design, API design, data modeling, and observability.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, or operating AI-enabled systems, tools, agents, or workflows.
Technologies
AI · LLM · generative AI · retrieval-augmented generation · agentic workflows · machine learning · API design · data modeling · observability · responsible AI
About Expedia Group
Operates Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo, connecting travelers with hotels, flights, and vacation rentals while monetizing supply partners via advertising and a B2B distribution marketplace.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
become AI-native by turning AI experimentation into measurable business impact—creating capacity, improving speed and quality, and building AI fluency across the enterprise. As a Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed with teams in Business Units/Enterprise functions across EG to identify high-value opportunities, translate ambiguous business challenges into measurable outcomes, and rapidly prototype, productionize, and scale AI-powered solutions. You will be a highly influential technical leader who coaches senior individual contributors in leadership and engineering practices, partners with executive leaders, and turns emerging AI capabilities into reusable patterns, tools, and ways of working that teams can adopt. Combining deep hands-on engineering with strong partnership and change leadership, you will help teams adopt AI responsibly and at scale while keeping
More from the job description
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