Principal Staff AI Engineer, Premium AI

About This Role

This role involves setting the technical direction and foundational algorithms, models, and systems for LinkedIn's Premium AI product, impacting millions of users and driving significant revenue. The Principal Staff AI Engineer will lead a team of 50+ to build customer-facing AI-driven products, focusing on generative AI, LLMs, and deep learning solutions. This position requires partnering with product, data science, and AI research organizations to translate business goals into scalable AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and foundation to build and own algorithms, models, systems and product experiences that power LinkedIn’s Premium AI product
• Define and execute technical vision for applying AI and Data Systems to accelerate the team’s roadmap which includes activity data mining using LLMs, identity resolution using heterogeneous data sources, ads retrieval at scale and advertiser workflows to build higher performing ads
• Mentor and work with other Sr. Staff SWEs in the team to establish quality norms, to build a culture of operational excellence and speed
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and AI Research organizations to translate business goals into scalable AI-and-Data powered capabilities to improve the advertiser experience & ROI
• Establish best practices for experimentation, model evaluation, and responsible AI
• Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization
• Work closely with and influence product and/or technology partners regularly to help define roadmap

Requirements

• 5+ years as a Technical Leader (L7, Senior Staff, Principal, etc.)
• 7+ years of industry experience with Machine Learning, AI, Data Engineering, or related solutions
• Bachelor of Science (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience
• 7+ years of industry experience with Machine Learning, AI, Data Engineering, or related solutions, with 5+ years as a Technical Leader (L7, Senior Staff, Principal, etc.)

Nice to Have

• 10+ years of industry experience (AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related) including prior experience working in the Tech or Product domain
• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Strong experience in designing and optimizing AI solutions for direct-to-consumer Tech
• Experience in designing and optimizing recommender and/or search systems that create highly personalized experiences for LinkedIn’s members and scale to solve complex business problems
• Experience with deep learning, LLMs, graphs/graph mining, ranking, auction theory, optimization
• Previous design and implementation of solutions in highly distributed environments

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits