This role pays less than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$177,900–$246,150
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$143k
versus about
$212k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About CNA Financial
CNA Financial is a Chicago-based commercial property and casualty insurance company, offering business insurance and risk-management services to companies across the United States and internationally.
CNA Financial currently has
18 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$97,000–$189,000
across 15 roles with salary data.
Principal AI Engineer
As a Principal AI Engineer, you will provide high-level technical leadership in designing, developing, and scaling an AI-native agentic engineering platform. You will build foundational capabilities including agentic coding workflows, multi-agent orchestration patterns, and AI-augmented CI/CD pipelines to enable the organization to deliver secure, high-quality systems at scale. Your daily work involves integrating tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot into the software delivery lifecycle while establishing guardrails for automated quality gates and rapid environment provisioning. You will leverage technologies including GCP, GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, and JFrog Artifactory to manage infrastructure and security. The role addresses the challenge of balancing speed with architectural integrity in an AI-driven landscape, specifically focusing on creating a centralized marketplace for skills and agents while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements like Sox controls.
What does a AI Engineer earn?
Median $211200 from 132 postings across 36 companies.
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