Principal Software Engineer (Gradient AI)

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Scope and mission:

• Drive the design and operation of Gradient AI platform, focusing on delivering a simple and innovative agent development experience with best of breed scale, performance, and predictability.
• Drive architectural vision, technical excellence, and innovation across both backend systems and customer-facing interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Build
• Design and evolve the architecture for our agent development experience including code integration, evaluations, observability, tools, and cross-agent interactions.
• Drive initiatives to deliver an architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, low-latency, and cost efficiency.
• Manage and evolve our benchmarking system to continuously raise the bar on our experience.
• Roll out new services by taking on a hands-on lead role as required to ensure timely delivery.
• Technical Leadership
• Establish and enforce technical standards, coding practices, tooling, and infrastructure guidelines across the AI/ML engineering teams.
• Establish best practices for design, testing, deployments, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
• Mentor other senior engineers, shaping the team’s culture of architectural rigor and operational excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work with product managers,...