Senior / Principal AI Engineer for Business Intelligence - TSMC - San Jose, CA
TSMC
Overview of Role As a Sr./Principal AI Engineer within TSMC's Artificial Intelligence for Business Intelligence Innovation (AI4BII) Center, you will join an exciting global team dedicated to generating crucial business intelligence insights that shape TSMC's strategic decisions and global operations. This role uniquely blends applied research with end-to-end product development, placing you at the forefront of our mission to leverage advanced AI for a competitive edge. Operating with the agility of an internal startup, you will have the autonomy to build foundational systems from the ground up. You will tackle complex challenges spanning from advanced analytics and multimodal AI agents to time-series forecasting and reinforcement learning for manufacturing optimization. This is a role for a builder and a researcher who has been through the "zero-to-one" product journey and thrives on rapid iteration, technical leadership, and seeing their work create tangible business impact. Our hybrid work schedule currently requires 4 days in the office, ensuring a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Responsibilities Lead System Architecture: Own the end-to-end design and development of new AI-native products and platforms, from initial concept and data pipelines to scalable, production-grade services. Build with Frontier AI: Drive the hands-on implementation of advanced AI systems leveraging frontier LLM models, including the design of robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and multi-agent workflows. Prototype and Validate: Lead rapid validation sprints to build proof-of-concepts, create evaluation harnesses to measure accuracy, latency, and cost, and partner with product teams to harden prototypes for production release. Engineer for Scale: Architect and implement the underlying MLOps infrastructure, including model serving, automated testing, and observability, to ensure our AI services meet enterprise-grade SLAs. Drive Innovation: Research and vali