Principal AI Engineer - San Francisco Bay Area

Acquisition Network LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquisition Network is seeking a Principal AI Engineer for its San Francisco Bay Area engagements. The role focuses on building data and AI capabilities that improve products, decisions, and operations.

Senior professionals will own end-to-end AI projects, including architecture, delivery, and measurable impact, with collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams. The base salary range across represented principal AI engineer searches in the SF Bay Area is $200,000 to $320,000 per

Qualifications

• Senior experience in machine learning, data science, data engineering, analytics, or a related discipline.
• Strong statistical, technical, and experimental judgment.
• Experience taking data or model work from discovery into production.
• Ability to connect technical work to revenue, customer, risk, or operating outcomes.
• Clear communication with executives, engineers, analysts, and nontechnical partners.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the employer without misrepresenting work status.

Responsibilities

• Lead applied artificial intelligence architecture and production delivery across important use cases.
• Set the technical direction for data, machine learning, or applied AI initiatives.
• Turn business priorities into measurable models, data products, experiments, and production systems.
• Establish standards for data quality, evaluation, monitoring, privacy, and responsible model use.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and business leaders on implementation and adoption.
• Communicate tradeoffs, limitations, and results clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Develop team capability through hiring, mentoring, documentation, and repeatable operating practices.

Skills

Senior ML experience

Data science

Data engineering

Analytics

Executive communication

Job description

Acquisition Network, through its recruiting partnership with Career Launch, works with experienced professionals seeking full-time roles and gives partner recruiters one profile to review across relevant searches.

The specific employer, team, work arrangement, interview process, and final compensation are disclosed before a candidate is submitted to an employer.

The role

These searches are for senior professionals who can build data and artificial intelligence capabilities that improve products, decisions, and operating performance. The strongest candidates combine functional depth with ownership, executive communication, and a record of measurable results.

What you may own

• Lead applied artificial intelligence architecture and production delivery across important use cases.
• Set the technical direction for data, machine learning, or applied artificial intelligence initiatives.
• Turn business priorities into measurable models, data products, experiments, and production systems.
• Establish standards for data quality, evaluation, monitoring, privacy, and responsible model use.
• Partner with engineering, product, security, and business leaders on implementation and adoption.
• Communicate tradeoffs, limitations, and results clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Develop team capability through hiring, mentoring, documentation, and repeatable operating practices.

What we are looking for

• Senior experience in machine learning, data science, data engineering, analytics, or a related discipline.
• Strong statistical, technical, and experimental judgment.
• Experience taking data or model work from discovery into monitored production use.
• Ability to connect technical work to revenue, customer, risk, or operating outcomes.
• Clear communication with executives, engineers, analysts, and nontechnical partners.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the employer without misrepresenting work status.

Compensation and location

The anticipated base salary range across represented Principal AI Engineer searches in San Francisco Bay Area is $200,000 to $320,000 per year. Final compensation depends on the employer, scope, level, experience, and work arrangement and may include bonus, commission, or equity where applicable.

Equal opportunity

Acquisition Network and Career Launch evaluate candidates without regard to protected characteristics under applicable law. Hiring decisions are made by the applicable partner employer.