Principal Data Scientist / AI Engineer

Crown Castle • Piney Point Village, TX

1d • $155,000 - $213,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role focuses on designing, building, and deploying production-ready AI solutions that support enterprise workflows across operations, engineering, finance, and corporate functions. You will work at the intersection of applied research and software engineering, translating modern AI capabilities into secure, reliable, and scalable systems used in business-critical environments. This role offers the opportunity to work on real enterprise problems with measurable impact, apply modern AI responsibly at scale, and help shape how AI is adopted across the organization with a strong emphasis on governance, reliability, and long-term value.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, physics, engineering, or other qualitative discipline required
• 10+ years of experience hands-on experience applying descriptive statistics, machine learning, predictive modeling, and visualization techniques to solve challenging business problems required
• Expert knowledge in: Statistical and machine learning techniques, Data Science libraries in a programming or scripting language, model deployment, machine learning workflows required
• Strong proficiency in Python and DevOps and source control management tools required
• Experience deploying AI or ML solutions in production environments
• Strong understanding of LLM-based applications and agentic systems
• Experience with RAG architectures and semantic search
• Familiarity with MLOps, monitoring, and CI/CD practices
• Experience working in enterprise or regulated environments
• Applied machine learning and AI
• LLM application development and prompt engineering
• Agentic workflows and orchestration
• Python and modern software engineering
• Data pipelines and enterprise data integration

Nice To Haves

• Graduate Degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Design and implement LLM-powered applications, assistants, and agentic workflows
• Apply prompt engineering, tool calling, and orchestration patterns
• Translate business problems into scalable AI-enabled solutions
• Design data pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and retrieval
• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions
• Optimize relevance, context management, and response quality
• Build AI-driven workflows with conditional logic and human-in-the-loop controls
• Integrate with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and internal systems
• Deploy AI models and applications using modern engineering practices
• Ensure scalability, reliability, monitoring, and cost efficiency
• Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments
• Implement access controls, data protection, and PII handling
• Support AI governance, auditability, and compliance requirements
• Contribute to explainability, bias mitigation, and responsible AI practices

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).
• Market-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).
• New-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child. Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.
• Crown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.
• Matching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.
• Generous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).
• 10 company holidays plus 2 floating holiday.
• All offices provide free beverages and snacks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal