Fulltime || Principal AI Engineer || Arlington, Virginia
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Job Description
Title: Principal AI Engineer Location: Arlington, VA onsite Role: Own the reference architecture, design patterns, and engineering standards for how we build and deploy AI agents and ML systems across cloud and secure on-prem environments. Must be deeply hands-on - prototype, build, and harden the most complex and highest-risk components while setting the technical direction the rest of the team executes. Will be required to influence thru technical depth, not org authority. Required: 10 years …
Salary Context for AI Engineer
The US national median for AI Engineer is $185,000; in Washington the median is $240,500 (+30% vs national).
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