# Principal AI Engineer

RWE Americas, LLC To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent Functional area: IT / Digital Remuneration: Exempt The Principal AI Engineer is a platform level technical expert responsible for building and operating the shared AI capabilities that squads and business units build on, and for setting the engineering patterns and reference implementations that other engineers follow. This role owns the technical design, build, and operational decisions for those shared capabilities, working within the platform roadmap set by the head of AI Platform and Products, and the target-state architecture set by the Data/AI Platform Architect. This role integrates and operates shared platform services including orchestration and agent frameworks, retrieval and knowledge services, evaluation tooling, model and prompt lifecycle management, observability, and guardrails. The Principal AI Engineer operationalizes responsible AI at the platform level, delivers AI platform cost efficiency, and raises the output of the wider AI organization. Role Responsibilities: Integrate and operate the shared AI platform capabilities squads and business units build on, including orchestration and agent frame

- **Id**: 1183193
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rwe-principal-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-19T02:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-19
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T19:11:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7148
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Education assistance, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy & Utilities

## Company

- **Id**: 45975
- **Name**: RWE
- **Domain**: rwe.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rwe>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 96
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.1
- **Repost share**: 0.1
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 25
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 178000
- **Max**: 240000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 240000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 11
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T14:27:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.67
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 240000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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