# Principal Engineer

Impact We are seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Foundations engineering organization! In this role, you will set strategic technical direction, drive system architecture across multiple teams, and lead high-impact initiatives that align technology solutions with overarching business goals.You will serve as an enterprise-wide subject matter expert, guiding cross-functional architectural decisions, establishing software engineering best practices, and driving organizational change. Additionally, you will champion AI technology fluency across the engineering organization-leveraging AI-assisted developer productivity tools (such as AI coding assistants) to level up team velocity, and architecting modern agentic features using LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and multi-agent systems. You will lead multi-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers across all levels, and work closely with senior leadership to shape enterprise architectural roadmaps. You will also pioneer best practices for integrating AI capabilities into core platform services and core developer workflows. What You’ll Need to Be Successful Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or

- **Id**: 4316318
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shipt-principal-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Minneapolis, United States, Birmingham, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T16:16:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5832
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Delivery, Marketplaces, Online Groceries

## Company

- **Id**: 4443
- **Name**: Shipt
- **Domain**: shipt.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shipt>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 210500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 210500

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T16:16:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 44 · green card filings: 41; Filings 12m: 44

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T17:23:15Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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