Principal Data Engineer: AI & ML Platforms, SF Bay Area

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

Job summary

Acquisition Network LLC is seeking senior data engineers to build data and AI capabilities across partner employers in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will design data platforms, set technical direction for ML/AI initiatives, and turn business priorities into measurable data products and production systems.

The role requires ownership, executive communication, and a track record of delivering measurable results.

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, 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.

Skills

ML/Data science

Data engineering

Analytics

Experimental judgment

Executive communication

Job description

Acquisition Network LLC is seeking senior data engineers to build data and AI capabilities across partner employers in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will design data platforms, set technical direction for ML/AI initiatives, and turn business priorities into measurable data products and production systems.

The role requires ownership, executive communication, and a track record of delivering measurable results.