Principal AI Platform Operations Engineer
Raleigh, NC On-site
$202,000–$313,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
The Principal AI Platform Operations Engineer is the highest technical individual contributor and authority within the AI Platform & Operations team. The Principal Engineer is responsible for setting the long-term AI operations and platform vision and strategy for WGU. This role operates at the intersection of frontier AI operations practices and enterprise-scale production systems, translating emerging developments into strategic technical investments that advance the organization's mission. The Principal AI Platform Operations Engineer shapes the AI operations discipline itself, defining the practices, standards, and culture that govern how the organization deploys and operates AI, while advising executive leadership, influencing the product roadmap, and representing WGU's AI platform capabilities externally.
What you'll bring
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Recognized expertise across the full spectrum of AI operations: deployment, platform engineering, observability, reliability engineering, governance, and LLMOps/MLOps at enterprise scale.
- Ability to define and communicate multi-year technical strategy
- translate organizational goals into architectural vision and operational roadmaps.
- Deep expertise in frontier AI operations practices and the ability to assess, adapt, and productionize emerging techniques at organizational scale.
- Expert-level knowledge of AI safety, responsible AI, model risk, security, and enterprise AI governance including regulatory and compliance considerations.
- Proven ability to influence organizational direction at the executive level
- able to build consensus across competing priorities and stakeholders.
- Strong platform and systems thinking: ability to design AI infrastructure that enables teams to move faster and build more reliably.
- Track record of establishing engineering culture, standards, and practices that durably improve organizational capability.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- able to author technical strategy documents, present to boards and executives, and represent the organization externally.