Principal Engineer, AI

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas we behave like leaders regardless of title we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we love celebrating our wins big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led values-based and disciplined in execution youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and lets build whats next - together!

Were seeking a Principal Engineer AI who can work across the full stack of Anaplan AI applications from model integration and prompt engineering to building intuitive user interfaces. Youll build production-ready AI features that empower business users to leverage the power of GenAI within their planning workflows requiring both deep ML knowledge and strong software engineering skills.

We look forward to collaborating in person! This role features a hybrid work model with two days a week spent onsite in our New York office.

Your Impact

• Lead the architecture design and deployment of scalable Generative AI and Machine learning systems into production environments.
• Develop end-to-end GenAI features including backend API services model integration model monitoring evaluations and deployments.
• Integrate and optimize LLMs for specific business planning use cases including prompt engineering and RAG implementation.
• Build conversational interfaces and agentic workflows that make complex planning tasks accessible through natural language
• Implement evaluation frameworks to measure and improve GenAI feature quality including accuracy latency and user satisfaction metrics
• Design and develop APIs that expose AI capabilities to Anaplans platform and third-party integrations
• Optimize model inference pipelines for performance cost and scalability in production environments
• Implement monitoring logging and observability for GenAI systems to track usage errors and model behavior.
• Collaborate with data scientists to productionise ML models and forecasting algorithms

Your Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on professional experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or related engineering domains.
• End-to-end exposure in model lifecycle development including extensive experience in training and deploying ML models in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of LLM APIs prompt engineering and conversational AI patterns.
• Experience in fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific enterprise applications.
• Strong expertise in MLOps and LLMOps ensuring scalable reliable and monitorable model deployments.
• Experience with agentic frameworks and autonomous agent architectures.
• Proficiency in Python and modern software development practices (testing code review CI/CD).
• Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time with high quality

Desirable

• Advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or a strongly related quantitative field
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native ML infrastructure platforms
• Knowledge of vector databases (Pinecone Weaviate Qdrant) and embedding models
• Experience with model serving frameworks (vLLM TensorRT Ray)
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks for AI features
• Contributions to open-source ML projects or research publications
• Experience with model observability tools (LangSmith W&B MLflow)

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Base Salary Range:

$210000 - $285000 USD

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