Associate Principal, AI Engineer

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Requirements

• Technical Leadership: Set the technical direction for AI Engineering across foundation model integration, fine-tuning pipelines, RAG systems, agentic workflows, and evaluation infrastructure.
• AI Systems Development: Design and build production-grade Generative AI systems including retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, tool-using agents, and domain-adapted models.
• Platform and Infrastructure: Design and build the AI platform that powers internal teams, including model serving infrastructure, prompt and prompt-template management, experiment tracking, and feature stores.
• Research to Production: Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI research landscape and identify which advances translate into production value for the business.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with product, data science, research, and business stakeholders to scope AI initiatives and shape solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

Benefits

• access to genomics sequencing
• family planning
• health/dental/vision
• retirement benefits
• paid time off