Lead AI Platform Engineer

RWE; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 178,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

RWE Americas, LLC in Illinois seeks a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of shared AI platform capabilities used by multiple squads and business units. You will own technical standards and ensure production readiness, reliability, and security across the enterprise AI stack.

This role focuses on responsible AI, model lifecycle, observability, and cost efficiency, while mentoring senior engineers and evolving platform standards.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in computer science, data science, STEM, or related field.
• 11+ years of professional experience in software or AI/ML engineering roles with platform experience.
• Production experience with a major cloud platform, Python, containerized deployment and CI/CD for AI services.
• Experience with responsible AI, evaluation, guardrails, and audit infrastructure.
• Experience mentoring junior AI engineers; preferred in energy/industrial sectors.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and operate shared AI platform capabilities across squads and business units, ensuring production readiness and adoption.
• Address enterprise AI engineering challenges, including retrieval quality and safe operation in compliant workflows.
• Define reference implementations for AI development and drive adoption across the organization.
• Operationalize responsible AI with evaluation, guardrails, explainability, bias detection, and audit logging.
• Deliver platform cost efficiency through instrumentation and per-product economics, influencing routing, caching, and context management.
• Lead design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and evolve platform standards.

Skills

AI platform design

Production ML engineering

Mentoring engineers

Cost optimization

Regulatory compliance

Education

Master’s or PhD in CS/Data Science

Tools

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

LLM orchestration

Job description

RWE Americas, LLC in Illinois seeks a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of shared AI platform capabilities used by multiple squads and business units. You will own technical standards and ensure production readiness, reliability, and security across the enterprise AI stack.

This role focuses on responsible AI, model lifecycle, observability, and cost efficiency, while mentoring senior engineers and evolving platform standards.