As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
Grab the Good Stuff:
Weekly pay
Team member discount
401(k) with company contributions
Paid parental leave
Paid education assistance
Development programs for advancement and career growth
Medical/dental/vision
And more!
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As a Principal Engineer, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping the future of our digital customer experience. You will drive the integration of AI and modern engineering practices across our eCommerce, mobile, and digital platforms—helping transform how customers discover, engage, and transact with our brand.This is not just a hands-on engineering role—it is a force-multiplier position, where your ability to influence architecture, elevate engineering practices, and guide teams will directly impact customer satisfaction, personalization, and revenue growth.
This position will allow a flexible remote schedule. Must reside in our six-state footprint or be willing to relocate within our footprint including MI, IN, IL, OH, KY or WI.What You’ll Be Leading (Customer Facing Digital Innovation and AI Focus):
- Define and advance our AI-powered digital experience strategy, helping drive AI engineered solutions working with teams that are delivering personalization, intelligent search, and customer-facing AI agents.
- Drive adoption of AI/GenAI patterns such as context engineering, prompt design, retrieval-augmented systems (RAG), and agent-based workflows to enhance developer productivity and customer experiences.
- Shape and scale customer-facing AI capabilities such as dynamic product recommendations, conversational experiences, and personalized content delivery.
- Lead the development of next-generation web and mobile platforms, leveraging modern frameworks (React, Next.js, React Native) and composable architectures (e.g., headless CMS).
- Partner with product, UX, and data teams to deliver intelligent, personalized, and seamless omnichannel experiences.
- Set Technical Direction: Establish long-term architectural vision and ensure alignment across multiple teams and platforms.
- Accelerate Modernization: Identify and reduce technical debt while introducing scalable, forward-looking design patterns and AI-enabled workflows.
- Enable Teams at Scale: Act as a mentor and coach to senior engineers, helping elevate engineering maturity and consistency across domains.
- Drive Innovation Through POCs: Rapidly prototype and validate new technologies, with a focus on production-ready AI solutions and measurable business impact.
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Lead adoption of best practices in performance, scalability, security, observability, and maintainability.
- AI-First Digital Transformation: Be at the forefront of integrating AI into real-world customer journeys—from personalized content to intelligent shopping assistants.
- High Visibility & Influence: Work closely with senior leadership to shape strategy and influence enterprise-wide technical direction.
- End-to-End Ownership: Engage across the entire digital ecosystem—from front-end experiences to backend systems, data, and AI pipelines.
- Innovation Culture: Experiment, iterate, and bring new ideas to life in a fast-moving, customer-focused environment.
- Proven experience designing and delivering AI/ML or GenAI-powered applications in production environments.
- Thinks strategically about technology and business outcomes, not just code.
- Strong understanding of AI architecture patterns (prompt engineering, context management, vector databases, LLM orchestration, agent frameworks).
- Passionate about AI-driven innovation and digital customer experiences.
- Experience integrating AI into customer-facing digital products, such as personalization engines, recommendation systems, or conversational interfaces.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, APIs, and cloud-based AI services supporting scalable AI solutions.
- Balances hands-on technical depth with enterprise-level vision.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
We are committed to offering competitive pay that reflects market standards and ensures consistency within our organization.
The pay range for this position is listed below.
$120,750.00 - $191,000.00This pay range represents the minimum and maximum base pay for the position, which is determined by factors such as market data, the qualifications required, the level of responsibilities associated with the role and other roles at this same level. Your specific pay rate within this range will be based on your experience, qualifications, and skills compared to the internal team you’ll be joining.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, a 401(k) plan with employer match, disability leave, and paid time off (PTO). In addition to these core benefits, we are committed to supporting your overall well-being and career growth. Our offerings include a variety of programs designed to support your personal and professional development, such as paid parental leave, paid education assistance (including free education), a childcare subsidy and more. We are dedicated to creating a work environment that promotes work-life balance, long-term health and financial security, and continuous professional development
Skills Required
- Must reside in MI, IN, IL, OH, KY, or WI or be willing to relocate
- Proven experience designing and delivering AI/ML or GenAI-powered applications in production environments
- Strong understanding of AI architecture patterns (prompt engineering, context management, vector databases, LLM orchestration, agent frameworks)
- Experience integrating AI into customer-facing digital products (personalization engines, recommendation systems, conversational interfaces)
- Familiarity with data pipelines, APIs, and cloud-based AI services supporting scalable AI solutions
- Experience with modern web and mobile frameworks and composable/headless architectures (React, Next.js, React Native, headless CMS)
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and translate complex technical concepts into business value
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
Meijer Insights
What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
