{"id":2053450,"url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-principal-ai-data-engineer","title":"Principal AI Data Engineer","company":{"id":6044,"name":"Eaton","domain":"eaton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/eaton","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":354,"ghost_share":0.014,"stale_share":0.274,"repost_share":0.068,"time_to_fill_p50_days":41,"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Houston, United States","Raleigh, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":146000,"max":215000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":215000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"EU AI Act","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Hallucination","optional":false},{"name":"Master Data Management","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"MuleSoft","optional":false},{"name":"NIST AI RMF","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Apex","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T13:57:02Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-11T23:04:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"Eaton’s Corporate Information Technology team is seeking a Principal AI Data Engineer to support our global Data office. This position can be based at one of our US IT hubs including Beachwood, OH, Menomonee Falls, WI, Moon Township, PA, Raleigh, NC, or Houston, TX. Candidates must be local and commutable to these offices, as relocation assistance is not available. Some travel is expected (10-20%).\nThe expected annual salary range for this role is $146000 - $215000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.\nPlease note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\nWhat you’ll do:\nAs the senior technical builder within AI & Data Management, the Principal AI Data Engineer turns governance architecture into production capabilities for data quality, observability, metadata, lineage and AI agents. Reporting to the Senior Manager - Data Governance, this role sets the technical standards for Eaton’s Data Governance Program.\nThe role owns Enterprise Data Health, Atlan catalog connections, Snowflake governance schemas, cross-system lineage, Data Governance AI agents and the AI-readiness certification pipeline. As a senior individual contributor with no direct reports, it also supports complex AI and plant data initiatives, sets sprint-level technical goals and raises engineering standards across the organization.\nJob Responsibilities:\nBuild and operate the enterprise data quality capability on Enterprise Data Health: DGO rule development, rule coverage across domains, and the executive data quality scorecard reported through a technical, AI and data quality lens.\nBuild full-stack data observability with alerting and ticketing linked to the data quality framework, so issues are detected, routed and closed rather than only reported.\nDesign, build, evaluate and operate the Data Governance AI agents, and act as product owner for the agent estate, including agent scope, evaluation and accuracy thresholds, decision traces on every run, and retirement criteria.\nOwn all connections within the enterprise data catalog (Atlan): connection setup, hierarchy structure, scheduling, issue resolution, deprecation, and SDK and API work.\nStand up, refresh and assure the accuracy of cross-system data lineage for all strategic platforms.\nOwn and curate the Data Governance schemas within Snowflake.\nEngineer and run the AI-readiness certification pipeline that certifies data products as agent-consumable, including machine-readable definitions, explicit lineage and embedded permissions, executing against the certification standard set by the Principal Solution Architect.\nBuild retrieval-ready pipelines for unstructured data, including semantic cleaning, chunking and embedding, with entitlements carried in the metadata so retrieval cannot overshare.\nSet sprint-level technical goals for the AI-Native Data Engineering pod and provide functional technical direction to the Data Governance Engineers.\nBuild and own the enterprise AI spend data pipeline so that a new AI platform can be onboarded in days rather than a quarter, replacing the person-dependent desktop extract that currently feeds the AI FinOps Hub.\nDesign and own the data flow for the Enterprise AI Catalog, resolving intake records, configuration management AI fields, agent and connectivity registries and platform inventories into a single AI asset identity, so that AI spend is attributable and inventory health is measurable.\nProvide senior data engineering depth to complex work outside the pod, including the data initiatives behind AI Navigator intake reporting and analytics, in partnership with the AI-native software engineering pod.\nConduct on-site data assessments at Eaton plants, trace data quality issues to their source systems and processes, and convert findings into rules, monitoring and remediation.\nBuild against the shared control-plane specification, reference architectures and integration patterns set by the Principal Solution Architect, and escalate pattern gaps rather than inventing local ones.\nTrain the Data Governance organization on new Snowflake and Atlan capabilities that change governance practice.\nPartner with Master Data Management, Data and AI Platforms, Data and AI Architecture, and the federated stewardship network of domains, councils and stewards.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree from an accredited institution\nMinimum 10 years of professional experience\nMinimum 5 years of hands-on data governance experience (including data engineering, with demonstrated hands-on delivery of production data quality, metadata, lineage and pipeline capabilities on cloud data platforms, including experience building and/or operating AI or agent-based solutions)\nEaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.\nPreferred:\nAdvanced degree a plus.\nExperience in a global manufacturing or industrial environment, including plant-level data, is preferred.\nSkills:\nAdvanced SQL and Python; production pipelines optimized for performance and cost\nCloud data platforms: Snowflake (including Data Governance schema design and curation), Palantir, Dataiku, Azure AI Foundry\nEnterprise data catalog and metadata engineering: Atlan connections, hierarchy, scheduling, deprecation, SDK and API work\nCross-system data lineage across strategic platforms, including build, refresh and accuracy assurance\nData quality engineering: rule design, DGO rule frameworks, cleansing, observability, alerting and ServiceNow-linked ticketing\nAI agent engineering: build, maintenance, evaluation, accuracy scoring, decision traces, drift and hallucination monitoring, and retirement\nAI-ready data engineering: machine-readable definitions, explicit lineage, embedded permissions, and retrieval-ready pipelines with metadata entitlements\nMCP-based connectivity that exposes governed data and tools to agents within architecture standards\nPower BI for data quality reporting and executive scorecards\nDevSecOps and CI/CD, controls-as-code, and MuleSoft-based connectivity\nWorking knowledge of data and AI governance frameworks, including NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act, as applied to engineered controls\nBuilds first; turns architecture and policy into working systems\nLeads technically without formal authority and sets direction for other engineers\nCommunicates directly with engineers and leaders and demonstrates working capabilities\nWorks comfortably with plant teams and domain stewards to understand how data is created\nMentors engineers and raises engineering standards across the pod\nMakes the safe path fast by automating support work\nPartners across Master Data Management, Platforms, Architecture and the stewardship network\nNavigates ambiguity in agentic AI, forms a point of view and acts\nAll positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.\nThe application window for this position is anticipated to close on 10/21/26\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.\nEaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.\nYou do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.\nTo request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. 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