Principal AI Engineer — Automotive ML & MLOps Lead

Sotalent; Raymond (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid office/home

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Tuition assistance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

Company car programme

Job summary

Sotalent in the United States is seeking an AI Machine Learning Principal Engineer to lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives across automotive engineering, simulation, manufacturing quality and digital twin domains.

You will mentor engineers, shape design standards and collaborate with CAE, CAD and data platform teams to deliver production-grade AI solutions. Hybrid office/home setup may be available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing and deploying AI/ML systems.
• 3+ years in production environments.
• Hands-on with Graph Neural Networks (GCNNs, GNNs, GATs, MPNNs).
• Advanced proficiency in Python (and possibly C++/Java).
• Experience with ML frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and validation of AI/ML solutions for automotive engineering, CAE and manufacturing use cases.
• Design and deploy AI surrogate models using GCNNs to augment or replace physics-based CAE models.
• Architect and deploy scalable cloud-based AI systems using AWS and/or Azure.
• Own the full AI lifecycle: data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring.

Skills

GCNNs

Python

C++/Java

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

AWS/Azure

MLOps

Docker

CI/CD

LangGraph

LangChain

Strands SDK

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

GNNs

Job description

Sotalent in the United States is seeking an AI Machine Learning Principal Engineer to lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives across automotive engineering, simulation, manufacturing quality and digital twin domains.

You will mentor engineers, shape design standards and collaborate with CAE, CAD and data platform teams to deliver production-grade AI solutions. Hybrid office/home setup may be available.