Senior Software Engineer II – Enterprise AI Consulting & Embedded Experts
Company: Principal Financial Group
Location: Charlotte, NC (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-30
About this role
What You'll Do
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our AI Enablement product family within the Consulting & Embedded Experts team. In this role, you will operate as a trusted technical advisor and hands-on engineer, partnering directly with product and business teams to accelerate the safe, secure, and scalable adoption of AI across the enterprise.
Rather than owning a single product, you will embed with teams, shape solutions, and help scale AI capability through reusable patterns, platforms, and accelerators aligned to enterprise strategy.
Drive AI Adoption & Business Value
- Partner with product and business teams to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases aligned to enterprise priorities
- Translate ambiguous business problems into practical, production-ready AI solutions
- Focus on delivering value aligned to measurable outcomes and ROI
Embed with Teams as a Technical Expert
- Act as an embedded engineer/architect within delivery teams to accelerate AI solution design and implementation
- Bridge the gap between central AI enablement capabilities and domain-specific business needs
- Collaborate in a federated operating model, enabling teams while maintaining enterprise standards
Build & Scale Reusable AI Capabilities
- Contribute to and leverage enterprise AI platforms, MLOps/LLMOps capabilities, and reusable accelerators
- Create reusable patterns (e.g., RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks, guardrails) that reduce time-to-market and cost
- Help drive critical mass adoption of AI platforms across engineering teams
Ensure Safe, Secure, and Sustainable AI
- Design AI solutions that meet enterprise standards for security, governance, and responsible AI
- Implement guardrails, evaluation strategies, and monitoring to ensure trusted AI outcomes and customer protection
- Champion sustainable engineering practices including reusability, scalability, and governance alignment
**Shape Technical Directi...