Principal Engineer

Overview

Principal Software Engineering Director leading the discovery and delivery of innovative technical solutions, including AI-based safeguarding and controls across the enterprise.

What you'll do

• Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters.
• Integrate business plans by building foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.
• Accountable for leading the evolution of scalable strategic visions.
• Achieve organization financial targets and ensure viability of decisions are financially grounded.
• Achieve results through the management of teams responsible for strategic and critical pieces of architecture or functions of key strategic value to the business.
• Act as an authority in software best practices and propagate these in the broader organization, beyond your individual team.
• Lead the solutioning and technology implementations of outcomes driven by enterprise commitments and strategic roadmaps.
• Determine, establish and leverage strong, trust-based relationships across technology, product stakeholders, vendors, and other partner organizations.
• Lead cross-shore product teams to deliver modern technology solutions that enable business opportunities and/or solve problems.
• Partner closely with delivery organizations leveraging agentic solutions to ensure appropriate safeguarding and controls are in place.
• Provide leadership for all engineered solutions for how AI-based control implementation is approached across the enterprise.
• Own and manage the running of Allstate technology applications in production and be accountable for achieving KPIs.
• Lead an outcome-based, highly matrixed, globally dispersed delivery organization.

What you'll need

• Education: 4 year Bachelor's Degree (required); an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu.
• 12 or more years of experience (preferred).
• Deep technical expertise securing LLMs, generative AI, machine learning systems, and agentic AI.
• Expertise designing and securing AI agents, multi-agent architectures, autonomous workflows, tool/function calling, and orchestration.
• Experience applying AI to vulnerability discovery, attack-path analysis, threat detection, prioritization, and remediation.
• Experience technically testing AI systems for vulnerabilities and unintended behaviors.
• Track record of building, developing, and leading high-performing large organizations; establishes clear decision rights, accountability, and operating cadence while developing future leaders and succession pipelines.
• Strong operational expertise, with a proven ability to optimize processes, drive execution against strategic outcomes, and deliver consistent, high-quality results across complex environments.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex business challenges, identify innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Advanced business acumen with strong analytical skills; uses data, insights, and technology fluency to inform decisions and foster a culture of disciplined execution.
• Natural process innovator with strong learning agility and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Proven capability to successfully influence decision-makers and collaborators at all levels, upward, downward, and laterally, without relying solely on positional authority.
• Proven ability to lead large, multi-location teams through significant changes, including business transformations, systems implementations, and organizational integrations.

Details

• Remote work; commute to a nearby office and/or travel for meaningful connection opportunities.
• This job has supervisory duties.
• Compensation: $199,000.00 - $274,000.00 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
• Candidates offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.