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Principal AI Engineer

$148,500–$165,000Remote, hiring in IowaPrincipal

View posting at Mom's Meals

About the job

Principal AI Engineer serving as the enterprise lead AI consultant, partnering with business and executive leaders to identify high-value opportunities and deliver secure, scalable AI, automation, and integration solutions.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Advise business leaders on AI strategy, use cases, value assessments, and implementation roadmaps
  • Design and develop AI agents, copilots, workflows, and automation solutions using LLMs and RAG
  • Lead discovery workshops, process assessments, solution design, and enterprise integrations
  • Establish reusable AI engineering practices and optimize solutions for reliability and business value

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data science, engineering, or a related field
  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, data engineering, automation, analytics, or a related discipline
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, or advanced analytics solutions
  • Experience partnering with business stakeholders and leading discovery workshops, process assessments, and solution design sessions

Technologies

Agentic AI · Large Language Models · Generative AI · Retrieval-Augmented Generation · Robotic Process Automation · Intelligent Document Processing · Azure OpenAI · Microsoft Copilot Studio · Databricks · MuleSoft

About Mom's Meals

PurFoods' Mom's Meals delivers medically tailored, ready-to-heat meals and nutrition supports for health plans, government programs, caregivers, and individuals nationwide.

Private Late · 2000–5000 people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$148,500–$165,000
Pay details

Salary range: $148,500-165,000

Location
Ankeny, IA
Work arrangement
Remote
Employment type
Full-time
Visa sponsorship
Not available
Experience requirements
7+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Internal deployment & tooling

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

The middle of this range is $157,000, below the $198,000 median for the 1,730 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.