Senior Software Engineer II
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our AI Enablement product family within the Consulting & Embedded Experts team. In this role, you will operate as a trusted technical advisor and hands-on engineer, partnering directly with product and business teams to accelerate the safe, secure, and scalable adoption of AI across the enterprise. Rather than owning a single product, you will embed with teams, shape solutions, and help scale AI capability through reusable patterns, platforms, and accelerators aligned to enterprise strategy.
Drive AI Adoption & Business Value
Partner with product and business teams to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases aligned to enterprise priorities. Translate ambiguous business problems into practical, production-ready AI solutions. Focus on delivering value aligned to measurable outcomes and ROI. Embed with teams as a technical expert to accelerate AI solution design and implementation. Bridge the gap between central AI enablement capabilities and domain-specific business needs. Collaborate in a federated operating model, enabling teams while maintaining enterprise standards.
Build & Scale Reusable AI Capabilities
Contribute to and leverage enterprise AI platforms, MLOps/LLMOps capabilities, and reusable accelerators. Create reusable patterns (e.g., RAG architectures, evaluation frameworks, guardrails) that reduce time-to-market and cost. Help drive critical mass adoption of AI platforms across engineering teams. Ensure safe, secure, and sustainable AI design. Implement guardrails, evaluation strategies, and monitoring to ensure trusted AI outcomes and customer protection. Champion sustainable engineering practices including reusability, scalability, and governance alignment.
Shape Technical Direction & Capability Maturity
Assess emerging AI technologies and guide teams on when and how to adopt them responsibly. Help teams move up the AI maturity curve—from point solutions to enterprise-scale, embedded AI capabilities. Influence architecture decisions that enable long-term transformation, not just short-term delivery.
Enable & Elevate Others
Mentor engineers and product teams on AI best practices, architecture, and delivery approaches. Act as a force multiplier, enabling teams rather than becoming a bottleneck. Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, playbooks, and AI community building (e.g., demos, patterns, guidance).
About AI Enablement
Our mission is to drive enterprise AI innovation through scalable platforms, reusable patterns, and strategic implementation, empowering teams to deliver secure, high-value AI solutions at scale. We focus on: Expanding workforce adoption of AI through accessible, secure capabilities. Providing engineer-friendly platforms and patterns to accelerate delivery. Delivering business-aligned use cases that create measurable value.
Who You Are
8+ years of engineering experience, including building and scaling distributed systems. Experience working in complex, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders. Strong ability to operate in ambiguity and move between strategy and hands-on delivery. Proven ability to influence without authority and drive adoption across teams. Excellent communication skills—able to translate between technical and business audiences.
Salary Range Information
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly) $127000 - $152000 / year.
Time Off Program
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don't accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Work Environment
This role offers in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), in Des Moines, IA or Charlotte, NC. You'll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.
Hours
This role will partner with our global teams and has an expectation for flexibility in your work schedule to have a regular start time around 7:30-8:00 am CST a few days a week.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)
Experience
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.