Principal Software Engineer AI Engineering
Cambridge MA
About this position:
Context Labs is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help drive forward our AI Engineering initiatives within our ImmutablyTM 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 companys products. This role will report to the VP Engineering.
In this role you will:
- 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 .
- 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 bestinclass software development.
- Coach and mentor members of your team through the variety of technological and methodological challenges they face daytoday.
- Coordinate across a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.
- Anything else as may reasonably be required by the company.
Experience & Skills:
- 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 machinedriven insight systems.
- Demonstrated ability to finetune pretrained 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
- Handson 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 PostgreSQL or equivalent RDBMS
- Experience with NoSQL/NewSQL databases.
- Proficiency in source code management
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with functional programming
- Experience with OpenAI API
- A bachelors degree in computer science or related field
Why youll like it here:
- Context Labs is collaborative at its core. Youll 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.
- an innovative trusted data fabric platform our integrated solutions deliver contextdriven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns correlate trends and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the worlds most complicated persistent problems.
We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If youre interested in applying please do so.
Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation please contact Human Resources at .
Who we are:
Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing organizing and contextualizing the worlds climate information. The company enables data to become trusted shared and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD) providing insights and solutions to inform markets. Context Labs mission is to provide the worlds trusted data fabric platform delivering Asset Grade Data to customers using the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform deploying machine learning Artificial Intelligence and cryptographic blockchain technologies for contextdriven insights.
Building on the Immutably Enterprise Data Fabric platform the company has deployed customer service layers 1 DecarbonizationasaService (DaaS) tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition and its 2 CLEAR Path platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with the highest quality carbon credits. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the atscale growth of the Internet in prior companies. The company has offices in Amsterdam Cambridge Mass. and Houston.
We are a team that is hiring and growing! Learn more about Context Labs here:
www.contextlabs
Required Experience:
Senior IC