Principal Engineer, AI Governance & Digital Solutions

UL, LLC; Vancouver (WA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 20% target

Health benefits (medical, dental, and視

Wellness benefits (mental andFinancial

401K retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

UL LLC seeks a Principal Engineer - Digital AI to serve as the Global SME for Digital AI technologies, guiding UL Solutions in standards, certification, assurance, and advisory services across AI systems. This role drives AI governance, enterprise and cloud AI, and lifecycle assurance.

Hybrid role requiring 3 days onsite in any UL office globally; remote consideration for non-local candidates. The position emphasizes leadership in AI evaluation, risk, and regulatory alignment, with a competitive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of technical experience in software platforms, cloud systems, AI/ML systems, cybersecurity, technology risk, model lifecycle management, digital assurance, or related technology domains, including 5+ years with AI technologies.
• Demonstrated experience translating AI governance, model risk management, and regulatory requirements into practical evaluation methodologies, controls, assurance frameworks, certification programs, or customer-facing services.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and test AI systems and identify failure modes, risks, and control gaps across model performance, transparency, traceability, explainability, reliability, robustness, human-in-the-loop controls, fairness and bias, privacy, security, accountability, and operational resilience.
• Working knowledge of AI evaluation/testing methodologies, including benchmarking, scenario-based testing, red teaming, bias/fairness evaluation, robustness testing, model monitoring, and risk-mitigation control assessment.
• Working knowledge of predictive AI and machine learning, Generative AI, LLMs, foundation/frontier models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, multi-agent systems, and associated governance risks (hallucinations, prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, drift, unsafe actions, output reliability).
• Strong presentation, technical writing, thought leadership, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.

Skills

AI governance

AI/ML systems

Model risk management

AI evaluation methodologies

Red teaming & bias testing

LLMs / Generative AI

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

UL LLC seeks a Principal Engineer - Digital AI to serve as the Global SME for Digital AI technologies, guiding UL Solutions in standards, certification, assurance, and advisory services across AI systems. This role drives AI governance, enterprise and cloud AI, and lifecycle assurance.

Hybrid role requiring 3 days onsite in any UL office globally; remote consideration for non-local candidates. The position emphasizes leadership in AI evaluation, risk, and regulatory alignment, with a competitive