Principal Data Engineer - AI/ML Platform & Strategy (SF)

Acquisition Network LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquisition Network LLC, through its Career Launch partnership, seeks Principal Data Engineer roles in the San Francisco Bay Area. Senior candidates will design data platforms, ML models, and data products, coordinating with engineering, product, security, and business teams to enable measurable business outcomes.

Strong expertise in data engineering and ML, plus the ability to communicate with executives and non-technical partners, will be essential.

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Design reliable data platforms, models, and pipelines for analytics and machine learning.
• Set the technical direction for data, ML, or 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

Machine learning

Data engineering

Analytics

Executive communication

Job description

Acquisition Network LLC, through its Career Launch partnership, seeks Principal Data Engineer roles in the San Francisco Bay Area. Senior candidates will design data platforms, ML models, and data products, coordinating with engineering, product, security, and business teams to enable measurable business outcomes.

Strong expertise in data engineering and ML, plus the ability to communicate with executives and non-technical partners, will be essential.