Principal AI Engineer

The Principal AI Engineer serves as Mom's Meals ' lead AI consultant and technical expert, partnering with business leaders to identify opportunities, design innovative AI solutions, and implement technologies that improve business outcomes.

This role works directly with functional leaders across the organization to analyze workflows, identify inefficiencies, and develop AI-powered solutions that drive productivity, automation, operational excellence, and informed decision-making. The Principal AI Engineer combines hands-on AI expertise, strong business acumen, and technical leadership to translate complex business challenges into practical, secure, and scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate brings experience with Agentic AI, Generative AI, intelligent automation, and modern enterprise technologies. They can communicate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders while helping drive responsible AI adoption throughout Mom's Meals .

This position can be remote with occasional travel required for business meetings, discovery workshop sessions, and company events as needed.

Remote hires will be required to travel to our headquarters in Ankeny, IA (company paid) on their first day for orientation.

At this time, we are NOT considering applicants that require immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc.

Salary range: $148,500-165,000

Benefits

Our employees enjoy a generous package of benefits that we are thrilled to provide, and feel is part of what makes us different as an employer. We value our team members, and this is one way we can show it.

Benefits include:

-PTO, holiday pay and holiday of choice

-401(k) match

-Life insurance

-Short-term disability

-Health, dental and vision insurance

-Maternity/paternity leave

-Health savings account (HSA)

-Flex spending accounts (FSA) – health and dependent

Position Responsibilities may include, but not limited to

AI Strategy & Business Consulting

- Partner with business leaders across Mom's Meals to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and process inefficiencies

- Conduct workflow assessments and discovery sessions to identify opportunities for AI-driven transformation

- Translate business requirements into practical AI, automation, and analytics solutions

- Develop business cases, value assessments, and implementation roadmaps for AI initiatives

- Serve as a trusted advisor on emerging AI technologies, trends, opportunities, and risks

- Recommend appropriate approaches using Agentic AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Intelligent Document Processing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and other relevant methods

AI Solution Design & Technical Leadership

- Design practical AI solutions that address complex business challenges and improve operational outcomes

- Evaluate requirements and recommend appropriate AI technologies, tools, and implementation approaches

- Lead solution design sessions with business and technical stakeholders

- Develop AI-enabled workflows, agents, copilots, and automation solutions that integrate with existing enterprise systems

- Apply sound cross-platform design practices so solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with company technology standards

- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, integration, security, and data teams to deploy and support AI solutions successfully

AI Solution Development

- Design, develop, test, and implement AI-powered applications, intelligent agents, copilots, and automation solutions

- Build Agentic AI solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs), orchestration frameworks, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques

- Develop AI solutions that automate business processes, improve employee productivity, enhance decision-making, and strengthen