Principal Data/AI Engineer

The Principal Data/AI Engineer at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies drives the technical strategy and architecture of enterprise-scale data and AI platforms, focusing on data pipelines, AI solutions, and best practices in data engineering.

Location: United States

Salary: $146,000–$241,000/yr

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain highly scalable batch and streaming pipelines on the Snowflake Data Platform (Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables, Snowpark, Iceberg).
• Architect and deliver ML/GenAI solutions using managed cloud services (AWS, Azure, Snowflake Cortex).
• Implement modern data modeling and architecture patterns; establish and enforce standards for data quality (tests, expectations, SLAs/SLOs), observability (metrics, logs, traces), and lineage.
• Ensure integration of biotech systems (MES, LIMS, SCADA, ERP, QMS) into centralized data platform.
• Collaborate with product managers, product engineers, platform architects, and business stakeholders to align data and AI engineering solutions with business requirements.
• Enable modern AI use cases - feature stores, vector search/RAG, model serving, safety/guardrails, and continuous monitoring for drift, bias, and performance.
• Optimize storage tiers, compute clusters/warehouses, caching, and workload orchestration for latency and throughput.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure adherence to GxP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, and data privacy regulations.
• Lead design reviews, incident postmortems, and cross-team architecture forums.
• Stay current with emerging technologies (data mesh, real-time streaming, digital twins, generative AI platforms) and introduce relevant innovations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, AI/ML Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of professional experience in data/software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or cloud platform engineering.
• Proven experience using Python and SQL.
• Extensive experience building and maintaining data pipelines using modern frameworks (e.g. Airflow, dbt).
• Proven experience with data modelling for analytics and AI use cases.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Proven experience delivering production-grade data solutions.
• Familiarity with biotech or life sciences systems and regulatory compliance frameworks (GxP, FDA, EMA).

Benefits

• Robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage with the option of a Health Savings Account with company contributions.
• Industry leading 401(k) savings plan.
• Insurance coverage, employee assistance programs and wellness incentives.
• Paid vacation time, sick time, and company holidays.

Additional Information

• This is a global position supporting all sites, based at any FUJIFILM location worldwide.
• Salary range in the US is $146,000 to $241,000, varies by location and experience.
• FUJIFILM is committed to equal opportunity employment and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants.