Principal Software Engineer - AI Engineering

Principal Software Engineer - AI Engineering

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Principal Software Engineer, AI Engineering

Cambridge, MA

Context Labs is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help drive forward our AI Engineering initiatives within our Immutably™ Platform and analytics spaces. Working as an integral leader within the development team, the engineer will lead many aspects of developing our AI engineering systems; as well as provide thought leadership, upskilling of less senior engineers, and taking part in defining strategic linkages across the company’s products.

This role will report to the VP, Engineering.

• Provide leadership within the AI engineering team as a technical authority on AI, LLMs, and related technologies.
• Develop and maintain AI integrations, systems, and services for use within the Immutably™ Platform.
• Collaborate with other development teams and the product owner to define and estimate business requirements and then translate these into specific software tasks.
• Develop code to translate business requirements into model execution.
• Fine tune models to support specific business cases.
• Develop RAG systems to support business requirements.
• Provide exemplary designs, architecture, and code, etc. for the engineering team to use as guidelines.
• Conduct code reviews.
• Lead technical talks on topics relating to building, scaling, and performance of AI systems.
• Oversee the ongoing maintenance of related AI based systems.
• Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development.
• Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological, and methodological challenges they face day‑to‑day.
• Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
• Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.

• 10+ years of experience in professional software systems development.
• Great communication skills.
• Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail.
• Comfort in dealing with highly abstract concepts and complex architectures is critical for this role.
• Proven experience in integrating and utilizing LLM APIs for building conversational AI and machine-driven insight systems.
• Demonstrated ability to fine‑tune pre‑trained language models (LLMs) to improve performance on specific tasks.
• Proficiency in designing and optimizing prompts to elicit desired responses from language models.
• Experience with integrating API services.
• Proficiency in unit and functional testing.
• Hands‑on experience in building and deploying conversational AI systems, including chatbots and virtual assistants.
• Strong coding skills in Java or other JVM languages (e.g., Scala) for developing scalable AI solutions.
• Experience with disparate Java frameworks such as Spring/Quarkus/Helidon etc.
• Proficiency with Docker based microservice architectures and the Kubernetes platform.
• Proficiency with MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, or equivalent RDBMS.
• Experience with No
  
  SQL/NewSQL databases.
• Proficiency in source code management.

• Experience with functional programming.
• Experience with OpenAI API.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Annual Base Compensation Range: $170,000 – $235,000

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You’ll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery.
• We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change.
• Context Labs’ mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information. Powered by Immutably™, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, our integrated solutions deliver context‑driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world’s most complicated, persistent problems.

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