# Principal AI Engineer

Job Characteristics: Define the architectural vision and governance standards for GenAI solutions at scale. Lead the design of intelligent systems leveraging LLMs, agentic workflows, and vector-based retrieval strategies, while ensuring alignment with enterprise-level goals around security, performance, and reusability. This role operates at the intersection of deep technical expertise and cross-functional leadership. Education/Work Experience: Degree and 10-12 years experience. Independence Level/Reports to: Normally reports to AI Engineering Manager or Director. Additional Job Description The Principal Engineer - Agentic AI Platform will lead the strategy, architecture, governance, security, and operational management of the enterprise Agentic AI Platform. This role is responsible for building and managing the foundational platform capabilities required to scale AI Agents across the enterprise, including agent orchestration frameworks, LLM platform services, AI security controls, governance frameworks, observability, and operational excellence. The individual will work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Data & AI teams, Security, Platform Engineering, and Business stakeholder

- **Id**: 1332337
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ecolab-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**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T03:21:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5723
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Water Utilities, Chemical Manufacturing, Sterilization & Infection Control

## Company

- **Id**: 1754712
- **Name**: Ecolab
- **Domain**: ecolab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ecolab-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 157
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.732
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 28000
- **Max usd**: 74000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 47

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-27T11:46:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.508
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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