Principal Software Engineer

DataRobot R&D is a hard-working, fast-moving, fun-loving team of developers who put products before pride. Job Description: DataRobot delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI at scale. DataRobot empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on DataRobot for AI that makes sense for their business — today and in the future. As a Principal Software Engineer for Generative AI at DataRobot, you will be the technical anchor for our GenAI Tooling and Systems teams, shaping the architecture, ensuring scalability, and defining the future direction of our AI platform. This is not just a hands-on coding role; it’s a technical leadership position where you’ll drive multi-year projects, mentor senior engineers, and ensure our Generative AI solutions deliver real business impact. You’ll work together with research, engineering, and product, translating cutting-edge AI advancements into robust system capabilities that power real-world applications. This role is for you if you’re passionate about LLMs, Agents, AI Apps, AI orchestration, and scalable tooling, and thrive on solving open-ended, cross-functional, ambiguous challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Vision

Shape the long-term technical strategy for Generative AI at DataRobot, ensuring our systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals.
Lead architectural decisions for GenAI tooling (e.g., Agents and Agentic Workflows, Prompt Management, Frameworks & Libraries, LLM Onboarding, Tools, Multi-Agent Evaluations, Multimodality) and GenAI systems (e.g., Inference optimization, Distributed Training, Finetuning, Distillation,...