# Principal AI Engineer

Job Description: Job Title: Principal AI Engineer Location: Springfield, Missouri Department: Information Technology Employment Type: Full-time Job Summary: Join a compassionate, collaborative team making a measurable difference by delivering AI-driven analytics that empower business decisions and improve outcomes for stakeholders. This role offers the opportunity to lead high-impact AI initiatives, mentor cross-functional teams, shape enterprise AI strategy, work withcutting-edgeLLM and Snowflake technologies, and build production-ready systems that increase data accessibility and drive faster insights. Weseeka self-directed, systems-thinking engineer withstrong communicationskills and a passion for translating complex analytical needs into scalable technical solutions. The Principal AI Engineer is the senior technical contributor within Analytics responsible for designing, developing, and implementing enterprise AI capabilities on the data platform with a focus on Snowflake integration. This hands-on role develops natural language-to-SQL solutions, semantic data models, and prototype applications that enable governed, conversational access to enterprise data, and guides their tra

- **Id**: 1732207
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/brightli-principal-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Springfield, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T03:09:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6577
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Psychotherapy & Counseling, Psychiatric Care, Addiction Treatment

## Company

- **Id**: 4513175
- **Name**: Brightli
- **Domain**: brightli.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/brightli>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 11
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.727
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 95000
- **Max usd**: 196000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 782

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Cortex** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 61

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-03T00:18:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.461
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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