Principal AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and deploying AI-driven solutions, including ML models, generative AI applications, and intelligent agents.
• Developing and operationalizing LLM-powered solutions (RAG, prompt engineering, agent workflows) to extract insights from structured and unstructured data.
• Building scalable infrastructure and platforms to train and serve models at enterprise scale.
• Prototyping and delivering minimal viable products (MVP), proofs of concept, and production-ready AI solutions.
• Pricing and integrating AI into real-time and batch pipelines.
• Evaluating and recommending emerging tools, frameworks, and APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face, Vertex AI).
• Applying AI to anomaly detection and market behavior analysis across electrical markets.
• Contributing to innovation through experimentation with foundation models, vector databases, and optimization techniques.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• 3+ years of real-world experience building AI.
• 8-10 years of experience in building machine learning solutions in a professional environment.
• Demonstrated experience across multiple disciplines such as: Predictive modeling, Natural language processing, Data pipelines and automation, API development and integration, Data visualization and segmentation, Applied mathematical modeling.
• Proven ability to take ideas from concept to scalable production solutions.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI and large language models (fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, agent frameworks).

Qualifications

• Appropriate level will be determined based upon experience and knowledge.

Skills

• Apache Spark, Databricks, or Synapse
• Azure Data Factory & Azure Machine Learning Studio
• MLflow and model lifecycle management
• OpenAI and/or Hugging Face ecosystems
• SQL and database querying
• Docker and containerized deployments
• R and Python (required)

Benefits

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $168,000 - $193,000 USD annually. Position is also eligible for an annual bonus if individual performance and company objectives are met.

At MISO we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 401k, vacation, sick and safe time, available on your first day of employment.