Illumina

Illumina

Associate Principal, AI Engineering

US - California - San Diego · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$187k-$281kDetected 15 days ago
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About the role

  • What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know?
  • Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.
  • Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Responsibilities

  • Define reference architectures, design patterns, and platform standards for AI-enabled enterprise applications spanning web, mobile, and backend services.
  • Partner with the Principal Architect to develop multi-year technology roadmaps that align cloud, data, AI, and application strategy with business objectives.
  • Lead architectural reviews, ensuring system designs meet requirements for scalability, security, performance, observability, and total cost of ownership.
  • Design responsible AI frameworks covering prompt engineering standards, evaluation pipelines, model governance, and content safety controls.
  • Design cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or AWS, leveraging managed AI services (Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Cloud Functions, equivalent services).
  • Define and enforce standards for containerization, microservices, API design, and event-driven architectures.
  • Mentor senior engineers and tech leads, growing the next generation of architects within the organization.
  • Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to scope initiatives, manage trade-offs, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

  • 15 or more years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in architecture or senior technical leadership roles.
  • Deep hands-on expertise across full-stack development, including Python and Java ecosystems (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, microservices).
  • Proven experience architecting and deploying Generative AI solutions in production, including RAG systems, prompt engineering, and LLM integration.
  • Strong command of at least one major cloud platform (GCP, Azure, or AWS), with demonstrated experience designing scalable, multi-tenant systems.
  • Experience leading distributed engineering teams of 15 or more across multiple time zones.
  • Track record of delivering enterprise-grade systems that serve large user bases with measurable performance and revenue outcomes.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Ability to see beyond immediate technical decisions and shape multi-year technology direction.

Nice to have

  • Experience with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and multi-agent system design.
  • Familiarity with Voice AI and conversational AI platforms, including ASR, TTS, and dialog management.
  • Background in commerce platforms (Bloomreach, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud) or industrial and B2B e-commerce.
  • Exposure to data platforms (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks) and modern data architectures (lakehouse, streaming, vector stores).
  • Industry certifications such as TOGAF, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or AWS Solutions Architect Professional.
  • Active engagement with the technology community through conference talks, publications, patents, or industry awards.
  • Senior membership in IEEE, ACM, or equivalent professional organization.
  • Technical Skill Profile

Skills

  • GCP (Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Cloud Functions), Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Bamboo or equivalent CI/CD tooling, Terraform, observability stacks.
  • Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, AlloyDB, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), event streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
  • Leadership Competencies

Compensation

  • The estimated base salary range for the Associate Principal, AI Engineering role based in the United States of America is: $187,400 - $281,000.

Visa & Work Authorization

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