Principal AI Engineer

The Principal AI Engineer serves as Mom's Meals' lead AI consultant and technical expert, partnering with business leaders to identify opportunities, design innovative AI solutions, and implement technologies that improve business outcomes.

This role works directly with functional leaders across the organization to analyze workflows, identify inefficiencies, and develop AI-powered solutions that drive productivity, automation, operational excellence, and informed decision-making. The Principal AI Engineer combines hands-on AI expertise, strong business acumen, and technical leadership to translate complex business challenges into practical, secure, and scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate brings experience with Agentic AI, Generative AI, intelligent automation, and modern enterprise technologies. They can communicate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders while helping drive responsible AI adoption throughout Mom's Meals.

This position can be remote with occasional travel required for business meetings, discovery workshop sessions, and company events as needed.

Remote hires will be required to travel to our headquarters in Ankeny, IA (company paid) their first few days for new hire orientation, training, and onboarding.

At this time, we are NOT considering applicants that require immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc.

Salary range: $148,500-165,000 plus 10% bonus

Benefits

Our employees enjoy a generous package of benefits that we are thrilled to provide, and feel is part of what makes us different as an employer. We value our team members, and this is one way we can show it.

Benefits include:

-PTO, holiday pay and holiday of choice

-401(k) match

-Life insurance

-Short-term disability

-Health, dental and vision insurance

-Maternity/paternity leave

-Health savings account (HSA)

-Flex spending accounts (FSA) – health and dependent

Position Responsibilities may include, but not limited to

AI Strategy & Business Consulting

• Partner with business leaders across Mom's Meals to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and process inefficiencies

• Conduct workflow assessments and discovery sessions to identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation

• Translate business requirements into practical AI, automation, and analytics solutions

• Develop business cases, value assessments, and implementation roadmaps for AI initiatives

• Serve as a trusted advisor on emerging AI technologies, trends, opportunities, and risks

• Recommend appropriate approaches using Agentic AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Intelligent Document Processing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and other relevant methods

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field

• 7+ years’ experience in software engineering, AI engineering, data engineering, automation, analytics, or a related technology discipline

• 3+ years’ hands-on experience designing and implementing AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, or advanced analytics solutions

• Proven experience partnering directly with business stakeholders to solve complex business challenges through technology

• Experience leading discovery workshops, process assessments, and solution design sessions

• Demonstrated success delivering technology solutions across multiple business systems and platforms

• Strong understanding of enterprise applications, cloud platforms, system integrations, and modern data ecosystems

• Artificial Intelligence: Agentic AI frameworks and solution patterns; Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI; Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG); Prompt engineering and agent design; AI governance and lifecycle management; Model evaluation, monitoring, and optimization

• Intelligent Automation; Robotic Process Automation (RPA); Workflow orchestration technologies; Intelligent Document Processing (IDP); Business process automation and optimization

• Solution Delivery & Integration: Enterprise application integrations; API concepts and integration patterns; Cloud-based platforms and services; Secure solution design principles; AI deployment, monitoring, documentation, and support

• Data & Analytics: SQL and modern data engineering concepts; Data modeling and integration; Analytics and reporting platforms; AI-ready data platform concepts

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Master's degree

• Salesforce CRM

• MuleSoft

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)

• Databricks

• Microsoft Azure and Azure AI Services

• Azure OpenAI

• Microsoft Fabric

• Microsoft Power Platform

• Microsoft Copilot Studio

• Experience within manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, food production, supply chain, or other operationally complex environments

Physical Requirements

• Repetitive motions that include the wrists, hands and/or fingers

• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting, remaining in a stationary position for prolonged periods

• Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus