Hiring: AI Principal Engineer Company: WEX Location: Maine, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 13:36:23 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, Azure, CI/CD, Data Lake, Data Lakehouse, EMR, Encryption, Java, Kubernetes, LLM, Lambda, Machine Learning, PaaS, Python, Reinforcement Learning, S3, SageMaker, Spark, Stakeholder Management, Terraform About the job Experience: •A technically deep and innovative Software Engineer leader able to act and deliver to the business needs. •Have 15-20 years of software design and development experience at a large scale. •Strong software development skills in his or her chosen programming language, but ready and willing to learn and program in Java and Python. •Good experience in building machine learning supervised and unsupervised models. Experience in Reinforcement Learning is a plus. •Broad understanding of distributed computing frameworks like Ray and Spark Required Skills: •The vision behind Wex’s AI/ML engineering is to create a unified, scalable, and intelligent data and compute infrastructure that empowers our organization to unlock the full potential of our data. •Lead and drive the development of technology and platform for the company's AI/ML engineering needs, ensure the functional richness, reliability, performance, and flexibility of this platform •Help design the architecture and lead the implementation of the AI/ML infrastructure, platform and services. •Challenge the status quo and hold a high bar to drive for better and better technical solutions to effectively serve all the needs in the broad risk area of Wex. •Guide your team to leverage data and/or AI technology or tools in your design and development for high productivity and better solution quality. Show strong thought leadership and influence your peers in this area. •Closely partner with the other senior engineers across the organizations at Wex to deeply understand the business needs and jointly come up with technical solutions to serve these needs effectively. Demonstrate strong thought leadership and partnership. •Partner closely with information security teams to ensure the security and privacy of data, implementing encryption and access controls as required. •Partner with solutions architecture and LOB product and engineering orgs on integrations of the AI/ML Platform with their products/systems, and ensure reliable and performed execution. Compensation: •$250,300 - $289,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive benefits and rewards package •Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!