Principal Data Scientist / AI Engineer

POSITION TITLE

Principal Data Scientist (P5)

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role focuses on designing, building, and deploying production-ready AI solutions that support enterprise workflows across operations, engineering, finance, and corporate functions. You will work at the intersection of applied research and software engineering, translating modern AI capabilities into secure, reliable, and scalable systems used in business-critical environments.

This role offers the opportunity to work on real enterprise problems with measurable impact, apply modern AI responsibly at scale, and help shape how AI is adopted across the organization with a strong emphasis on governance, reliability, and long-term value.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

AI Solution & Agent Development

• Design and implement LLM-powered applications, assistants, and agentic workflows
• Apply prompt engineering, tool calling, and orchestration patterns
• Translate business problems into scalable AI-enabled solutions

Data & RAG Architecture

• Design data pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and retrieval
• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions
• Optimize relevance, context management, and response quality

Workflow Automation & Integration

• Build AI-driven workflows with conditional logic and human-in-the-loop controls
• Integrate with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and internal systems

Production Engineering & Deployment

* Deploy AI models...