Principal AI Platform Engineer

The role

This person will provide enterprise technical leadership to lead and expand responsible AI use across the organization. They will build enterprise AI platforms, tools, and services for LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic software development.

What you will do

• Leads AI platform engineering and adoption by building enterprise AI platforms, tools, services, and integrations
• Establishes AI operational excellence through reusable components, guardrails, and monitoring
• Partners on AI governance and risk with Risk Management, Information Security, Legal, Compliance, and Data Governance
• Owns AI-enabled and Agentic AI engineering delivery for strategic software initiatives
• Develops engineers and technical leaders through mentoring and training
• Advances technical mastery across architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, and DevSecOps
• Connects engineering to business outcomes by translating strategy and client needs into engineering strategies
• Leads across organizational boundaries by partnering with engineering, architecture, product, security, data, operations, quality, risk, and business leaders
• Influences without authority, resolving conflicts and dependencies

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating complex, business-critical software, distributed systems, and platforms
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI applications and platforms using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol, and cloud AI services s
• Experience scaling responsible AI-enabled engineering and Agentic AI across the software lifecycle
• Experience leading complex solution design and strategic technical decisions across multiple portfolios, products, systems, or business domains
• Distinguished software engineering expertise across application development, APIs and integration, cloud-native and event-driven architectures, data, security, platforms, DevSecOps, testing, CI/CD, ob
• Ability to analyze highly complex problems and connect engineering decisions to Compeer's strategy and enterprise value
• Exceptional communication, influence, leadership, and learning agility

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, agriculture, or another regulated industry

Benefits

• Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States
• Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time

About the company

Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. They provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities.