Principal AI & Machine Learning Engineer (R&D)

• Job Title: Principal AI & Machine Learning Engineer (R&D)
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Location: Raymond, OH, United States

About the Role:

Honda Development & Manufacturing of America is seeking a Principal AI & Machine Learning Engineer in Raymond, OH. You will serve as the chief AI architect for automotive R&D, deploying production-grade AI surrogate models, physics-informed neural networks, and agentic workflows to revolutionize vehicle CAE simulations.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Architect, train, and deploy production-grade AI and machine learning systems for automotive engineering and CAE applications.
• • Develop AI surrogate models using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs/GCNNs) to accelerate physics-based crash and structural simulations.
• • Design and deploy scalable cloud AI architectures on AWS and Azure, leveraging Amazon Bedrock and modern LLM frameworks.
• • Implement enterprise MLOps and GenAIOps pipelines incorporating model monitoring, data versioning, drift detection, and CI/CD.
• • Build agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain) to automate complex engineering simulation workflows and mentor team members.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
• • 8+ years of experience engineering ML/AI systems, including 3+ years deploying models into production environments.
• • Demonstrated mastery of Graph Neural Networks (GNN, GCNN), PyTorch/TensorFlow, and advanced Python engineering.
• • Hands-on experience with cloud AI infrastructure (AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker), and MLOps tools (MLflow).
• • Familiarity with CAE simulation data structures, physics-informed neural networks, or CAD integration is highly preferred.

What We Offer:

• • Executive total rewards including the Manager Lease Car Program (vehicle, insurance, and maintenance covered).
• • Industry-leading medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
• • 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching and company contributions.
• • Paid vacation, corporate holidays, and winter/summer plant shutdowns.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Honda is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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