
Senior Software Engineer II
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- Senior
- 1 day ago
- AI
- RAG
- System Design
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python
- C#
- .NET
- Azure OpenAI
- Zod
- Pydantic
- JSON Schema
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Elasticsearch
- AWS
- Azure
- IAM
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Secrets Management
- Test-Driven Development
- CI/CD
- Agile
- Health insurance
- Pension
About The Role:
This position performs complex research, design, and software development assignments in the design and delivery of production AI systems, including agentic workflows, LLM-powered pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and structured extraction services. The position provides direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology for cross-functional AI products; performs system design, typically across multiple systems and data sources; mentors more-junior members of the team; and works directly with business users and stakeholders to translate ambiguous, unstructured problems into measurable AI solutions.Â
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building and shipping LLM-based or ML-based systems to productionÂ
- BS in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience requiredÂ
- Demonstrated track record of owning an AI feature or service end to end: design, evaluation, deployment, and monitoringÂ
- Expert proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python; working knowledge of C#/.NET is a plusÂ
- Hands-on experience with LLM platforms and APIs (Azure OpenAI or equivalent), including prompt design, tool/function calling, structured outputs, and model selection tradeoffs Â
- Experience building RAG pipelines: chunking, embedding, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and grounding/citationÂ
- Strong understanding of schema-driven structured extraction from unstructured data (Zod, Pydantic, JSON Schema) and validation strategiesÂ
- Experience with evaluation frameworks for AI systems: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, precision/recall on extraction tasks, regression testing of prompts and agentsÂ
- Strong SQL proficiency and understanding of relational and vector data storage (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/vector stores)Â
- Working experience with both AWS and Azure, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, and managed AI services; containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent), secrets management, and observability (token usage, latency, cost attribution)Â
- Strong knowledge of software development best practices, test-driven development, and code reviewÂ
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and deploy production AI systems including agentic workflows, RAG services, and extraction pipelines across multiple business unitsÂ
- Interface with business stakeholders and technical team members to scope AI use cases, define success metrics, and finalize requirementsÂ
- Write and review detailed technical specifications and architecture documents for complex AI system componentsÂ
- Build and maintain evaluation harnesses; establish accuracy, latency, and cost baselines and monitor them in productionÂ
- Implement responsible AI practices: data handling, PII controls, hallucination mitigation, auditability, and human review where requiredÂ
- Own cost and performance of LLM workloads, including model selection, caching, and usage attributionÂ
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI services across AWS and Azure environmentsÂ
- Operate in Agile development environments while collaborating with key stakeholders across engineering, product, and business functionsÂ
- Mentor less-senior engineers on AI system design, evaluation methodology, and production readinessÂ
Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
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- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
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