Principal AI Platform Engineer

Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that promotes meaningful work and professional development, provides a flexible, hybrid work environment, and excellent benefits.

How we support you:

• Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

Where you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The contributions you will make:

• Providing enterprise technical leadership across portfolios, products, platforms, and transformation initiatives, focusing on leading and expanding responsible AI use across the organization.
• Setting enterprise AI Enablement Platform direction and partnering with Enterprise Architecture and AI Risk governance workgroup.
• Connecting AI technology platform strategy to enterprise needs, risks, and measurable enterprise value.
• Advancing AI-enabled engineering and Agentic AI at scale, building tools and platforms that make AI adoption safe, repeatable, and accessible.
• Serving as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders and modeling the behaviors that strengthen Compeer’s engineering culture.

A typical day:

• Leading AI platform engineering and adoption by building enterprise AI platforms, tools, services, and integrations for LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, agents, Model Context Protocol, and AI-assisted and agentic software development.
• Establishing AI operational excellence through reusable components and guardrails, evaluation frameworks, monitoring, cost and performance management, output validation, production support, and responsible scaling of AI tools and agents.
• Partnering on AI governance and risk with Risk Management, Information Security, Legal, Compliance, and Data Governance.
• Owning AI-enabled and Agentic AI engineering delivery for the most strategic and ambiguous software initiatives from discovery through sustained operation.
• Developing engineers and technical leaders through mentoring, communities of practice, training, and reusable guidance on AI-assisted development.
• Advancing technical mastery and engineering excellence across architecture, distributed systems, integration, cloud-native engineering, DevSecOps, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, and reliability.
• Connecting engineering to business outcomes by translating Compeer’s strategy, client needs, regulatory obligations, and risk into engineering strategies.
• Leading across organizational boundaries by partnering with engineering, architecture, product, security, data, operations, quality, risk, and business leaders.
• Influencing without authority, resolving conflicts and dependencies, and communicating risks and trade-offs clearly.

The skills and experience we prefer you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI applications and platforms using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol, and cloud AI services.
• Experience scaling responsible AI-enabled engineering and Agentic AI across the software lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of responsible AI and AI governance, model and vendor risk management, privacy, bias and fairness, auditability, human oversight, and sensitive-data protection.
• Experience leading complex solution design and strategic technical decisions across multiple portfolios, products, systems, or business domains.
• Distinguished software engineering expertise across application development, APIs and integration, cloud-native and event-driven architectures, data, security, platforms, DevSecOps, testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to analyze highly complex problems, anticipate second-and third-order effects, and balance technical, security, regulatory, operational, and investment trade-offs.
• Exceptional communication, influence, leadership, and learning agility.

How we will take care of you: Our job titles may span more than one career level (associate, senior, principal, etc.). The actual title and base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. This role is eligible for variable compensation and other benefits.

Base Pay: $133,000—$180,000 USD

Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.