Hybrid Principal ML Engineer — AI Leadership & Innovation

Placements24; Riverton (UT); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus potential

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Hybrid work model

Professional development budget

Research opportunities

Cutting-edge compute resources

Stock options

Paid time off

Career growth in leadership

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced ML models. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and drive production‑level AI solutions that solve complex problems.

You will shape technical direction, evaluate frameworks, and push the frontier of AI while ensuring ethical and scalable systems. A hybrid work model supports collaboration and flexibility.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Master's in CS/AI or related quantitative field.
• Proven track record leading ML projects and teams.
• Deep knowledge of ML algorithms, DL architectures, and statistical modeling.
• Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Keras).
• Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing (Spark).
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and MLOps practices.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of sophisticated ML models and algorithms.
• Research and apply state‑of‑the‑art ML techniques to business problems.
• Develop and maintain robust ML pipelines for data prep, training, evaluation and deployment.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to integrate ML into products.
• Mentor junior ML engineers and data scientists.
• Stay abreast of ML advances and contribute to IP through research.
• Ensure ethical and responsible development and deployment of AI systems.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Ph.D. or M.S. in CS/AI

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Keras

Spark

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced ML models. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and drive production‑level AI solutions that solve complex problems.

You will shape technical direction, evaluate frameworks, and push the frontier of AI while ensuring ethical and scalable systems. A hybrid work model supports collaboration and flexibility.