Principal AI Engineer

Hasbro • Pawtucket, RI

75d • $163,040 - $244,560 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Hasbro, our mission is to entertain and connect generations of fans through the wonder of storytelling and exhilaration of play. We're looking for adventurous and curious people who want to explore, experiment, and innovate to come up with the best ideas. Our culture has inspired our diverse team of highly skilled, highly creative, and highly committed individuals for 100 years and we believe the best is yet to come. We're seeking a Principal Engineer to join as a founding technical leader on our mission to bring AI-driven play experiences to life! This is a hands-on role for an engineer passionate about: building with innovative large language models (LLMs), shaping the future of interactive play and entertainment, and architecting systems that are safe, reliable, and magical. This is an execution-first role: you'll be coding, prototyping, and shipping every day while establishing the foundation for a new, playful AI-driven platform. You'll be the first engineer on a new AI platform with Hasbro IP behind it with the authority to set technical standards and engineering culture right from the beginning.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems.
• Proven experience building and shipping AI-powered products - consumer or enterprise.
• Hands-on experience with LLM integrations and ideally speech-to-text, text-to-speech, or dialogue systems.
• Deep familiarity with cloud-native architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure), APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and modern dev practices.
• Proficient in setting up monitoring, telemetry, and data management for live systems.
• Full-stack capability: comfortable across backend, infra, and light frontend work.
• Startup experience (0-1 or early-stage product development) strongly preferred.
• Pragmatic builder: knows when to prototype quickly vs. harden for scale.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with interactive play and entertainment systems.
• Familiarity with character-driven storytelling in digital formats.

Responsibilities

• Engineer adaptive, safe, and delightful character interactions.
• Work across speech, text, vision, haptics, and sensors to prototype multimodal interactions.
• Own backend APIs, integrate LLMs, and establish scalable cloud infrastructure for full-stack execution.
• Stand up automated, pull request-based pipelines, CI/CD, and modern deployment practices from day one.
• Implement monitoring, telemetry, and data pipelines to support scaling and safety.
• Make trade-offs (cloud vs. edge, latency, hardware optimization) during technical due diligence.
• Help hire and mentor the early-stage engineering team.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Paid Vacation & Holidays
• Generous 401(k) Match
• Paid Parental Leave
• Volunteer & Employee Giving Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Product Discounts & More!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree