Principal AI Engineer

About Crunchyroll Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love. Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime! About the role In the role of Principal AI Engineer for Concepts Lab , you will report to the VP of the Concepts Lab. We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles, CA (onsite). As the Principal AI Engineer for Concepts Lab , you will be the technical anchor for everything AI in the lab: designing and building the agentic delivery tooling, evaluation harnesses, and paved paths that let cross-functional pods take ideas from concept to production in days instead of months. This is a hybrid technical and enablement role. You will move fluidly between hands-on agent and platform development, instrumenting and measuring whether the system is actually working, and partnering with stakeholders across the company to roll those capabilities out. Success in your first year looks like a Concepts Lab where the cross-functional pod model has been stress-tested with real evidence, and where we can po