Principal AI Engineer

Mom's Meals | A Purfoods Company

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

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • Iowa • United StatesLead💰 $148,500 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing AI-driven solutions, including Large Language Models and Robotic Process Automation, while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology and governance standards. Proven ability to collaborate with business leaders to optimize processes and drive strategic AI initiatives.

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AI Solution DesignRobotic Process Automation (RPA)Large Language Models (LLMs)Business Process AutomationAI Governance

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Hard Skills

AI EngineeringData EngineeringMachine LearningPrompt EngineeringModel EvaluationSQLData ModelingWorkflow OrchestrationIntelligent Document Processing (IDP)Analytics

Soft Skills

CollaborationLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingCoaching

Tools & Technologies

Cloud PlatformsEnterprise ApplicationsAPI IntegrationAI Deployment ToolsAutomation Solutions

Industry Keywords

AI-Driven TransformationProcess OptimizationData EcosystemsEnterprise Technology StandardsCompliance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudRPASQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
Advise on emerging AI technologies, trends, opportunities, and risks
Design scalable, secure, maintainable AI solutions aligned with company technology standards
Lead solution design sessions with business and technical stakeholders
Develop AI-enabled workflows, agents, copilots, and automation solutions integrating with enterprise systems
Design, develop, test, and implement AI-powered applications, intelligent agents, copilots, and automation solutions
Build Agentic AI solutions using LLMs, orchestration frameworks, and RAG techniques
Establish reusable frameworks, accelerators, and engineering practices for future AI initiatives
Monitor, optimize, document, and continuously improve AI solutions
Lead intelligent automation initiatives using RPA and AI-enabled workflow technologies
Analyze end-to-end business processes and reduce manual effort
Design automated solutions integrating structured and unstructured business data
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, integration, security, and data teams
Ensure AI initiatives align with enterprise technology, security, data, and governance standards
Serve on the Mom's Meals AI Steering Committee and provide technical leadership for enterprise AI decisions
Help shape AI strategy, governance, roadmap, and initiative prioritization
Establish standards for responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, model oversight, and risk management
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, and vendors
Promote AI literacy and adoption through education, coaching, and thought leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
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
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Workflow orchestration technologies
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
Business process automation and optimization
Enterprise application integrations
API concepts and integration patterns
Cloud-based platforms and services
Secure solution design principles
AI deployment, monitoring, documentation, and support
SQL and modern data engineering concepts
Data modeling and integration
Analytics and reporting platforms
AI-ready data platform concepts
Ability to work in the United States without current or future immigration sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Company-paid travel to headquarters in Ankeny, IA for first-day orientation