# Principal ML Engineer

About NIQ: NIQ is a leading global consumer intelligence company, helping clients understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what they should do next. Our data, technology, AI, and analytics capabilities power decision-making for some of the world’s most important consumer, retail, and technology businesses. AI is central to NIQ’s next stage of growth. We are building trusted, scalable, and high-impact AI capabilities that transform how insights are created, delivered, and adopted across the business. This role will help shape the platforms, operating model, and leadership system needed to make that ambition real. Position Type: Full-Time About the Role: We are seeking a Principal ML Engineer with over 8 years of professional experience in software development to work with us. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in software engineering principles, software architecture design, and best practices, with solid knowledge of OOP fundamentals. As a Principal ML Engineer you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions, establishing the technical direction for critical projects that run globally. This position is to wo

- **Id**: 4241176
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nielseniq-principal-ml-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T09:55:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:10:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6063
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Market Research, Retail & Pricing Analytics

## Company

- **Id**: 9378
- **Name**: NielsenIQ
- **Domain**: nielseniq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nielseniq>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 22
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **NLP** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Triton** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:10:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T16:24:33Z

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