Principal Data Scientist

Requisition ID # 173576

Job Category

Accounting / Finance

Job Level

Manager/Principal

Business Unit

Technology & Security

Work Type

Hybrid

Job Location

Oakland

Department Overview

The Enterprise AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) is PG&E’s enterprise capability for accelerating safe, responsible, and value-driven AI adoption. The AI CoE guides the organization through AI Advisory, AI Governance, and AI Factory capabilities—helping business teams identify high-value opportunities, navigate responsible AI requirements, and build, deploy, and scale AI solutions into production. The team plays a central role in PG&E’s AI transformation by establishing reusable delivery patterns, advancing enterprise AI standards, and enabling AI solutions that improve affordability, safety, reliability, operational efficiency, and coworker productivity. Position Summary

We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist (AI Engineer focused) to serve as the chief technical staff member within Enterprise AI CoE. You will be the senior-most hands-on technical leader for enterprise AI execution, responsible for setting technical direction, designing scalable AI and agentic AI architectures, and guiding complex AI solutions from concept through production adoption. You will help lead significant changes in how PG&E adopts, governs, builds, and scales AI by establishing practical engineering standards, reusable solution patterns, and trusted technical approaches for generative AI, agentic systems, machine learning, and enterprise data science.

This is a highly visible technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in Python-based AI engineering, cloud AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, agentic AI frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, AI evaluation, observability, responsible AI, and production-grade MLOps/LLMOps. The successful candidate will work closely with Enterprise AI leadership, AI Cloud Engineering, Ent