Drimva

Uber

Principal Engineer, UAIS

$302K–$336K

San Francisco, California +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026

Location
San Francisco, California
Sunnyvale, California
Experience
10+ years building and shipping products powered by ML.
Education
Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

About the job

Owns an AI data vertical end to end, building scalable ML and backend systems while setting strategy and driving measurable business growth and customer partnerships.

What you'll do

  • Build and own production ML and backend systems, tackling high-scale technical challenges.
  • Set vertical direction and drive business metrics such as revenue, customers, and market reach.
  • Partner with strategic customers and align them with product and business leadership.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years building and shipping ML-powered products, with ownership of technology and business results for a significant product area.
  • Proven, measurable business growth, such as revenue, adoption, or market expansion.
  • Deep expertise in machine learning systems and backend distributed systems.
  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Nice to have

  • Experience taking a product or business line from early stage to scale, owning revenue and growth.
  • Production-scale GenAI and LLM systems expertise, or experience in an applied AI domain central to UAIS.

Pay

USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year (base salary, San Francisco, CA); USD $302,000 per year - USD $336,000 per year (base salary, Sunnyvale, CA)

Tools

ML, backend distributed systems, GenAI, LLM systems, agentic RL environments, multimodal and multilingual ML, robotics, audio

AI focus

Build AI data and evaluation infrastructure and production ML systems; lead AI data verticals spanning areas such as physical AI, agentic environments, evaluation, multimodal and multilingual ML, and robotics.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)