Senior AI Architect & Production Delivery Leader

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 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