Principal Software Engineer, AI Agents

This is a moment of change — and tremendous potential. Do you want to be part of shaping what’s next in human-AI collaboration?

Sema4.ai enables the enterprise to build, run, and manage intelligent AI agents that transform how people work. As Generative AI shakes up every industry, enterprises are looking for ways to unleash stunning productivity gains; deliver efficiencies with profound effects on the bottom line; accelerate innovation pipelines; and disrupt new markets.

What you can expect from us:

• Contribute to a mission to shape the future of AI
• Enjoy best-in-class benefits
• Accelerate your career growth by working with leading-edge technology, pioneering customers, and world-class colleagues

Recently named to Business Insider’s list of the most promising startups of 2024, Sema4.ai is funded by tier 1 venture capital firms–the ones who backed household names like Uber, Snapchat, Instagram, and Zendesk. Our founders are innovators in open source, big data, and automation-as-code. As previous leaders of the Enterprise Hadoop offering at Hortonworks and Cloudera, the Sema4.ai team has already managed a quarter of the world’s data with deployments in 90+ countries.

You

You are a strong team player who can operate effectively in a distributed product organization. Thriving in a fast-paced, results-driven environment, you take initiative, make decisions, and assume ownership of your work. As a generalist, you are comfortable working with multiple technologies and tool stacks, and you are enthusiastic about deploying generative AI to solve real-world use cases. Additionally, you are a passionate, motivated engineer who drives the product forward by leveraging the best from open source and industry innovations.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Design: Own the end-to-end technical architecture for our AI Agent platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance in distributed environments.
  
• Lead & Mentor: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation.
  
• Innovate in AI Agent Stack: Drive the evolution of our AI Agent platform, leveraging frameworks and open-source technologies.
  
• Deliver Customer Value: Translate customer needs into production-ready solutions, ensuring optimal quality, security, and performance at every stage of the software development lifecycle.
  
• Set Standards: Influence engineering best practices, from code review to release processes, ensuring a stable and efficient deployment ecosystem (e.g., npm, homebrew, Chocolatey, CI/CD systems, PyPI, Conda).
  
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure the reliability and efficiency of our products.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Strong Communication Skills: Excellent ability to convey complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

• Extensive Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven ability to design, implement, and manage complex, high-availability systems at scale.
  
• Mastery of Python (and Beyond): Deep experience in Python, with a solid background in at least one other prominent language (e.g., Go, Java, Rust).
  
• Cloud & Containerization: Expert-level proficiency with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Deep familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes (or equivalents).
  
• Security-Focused Mindset: Track record of integrating security best practices in architecture, code, and deployment, with solid knowledge of enterprise compliance and governance.
  
• Leadership & Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to lead projects, influence stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers in distributed environments.
  
• Problem-Solving & Adaptability: Adept at navigating ambiguous requirements, focusing on outcomes, and rapidly iterating to deliver high-quality solutions in a demanding, results-driven setting.
  
  

Bonus Points

• AI Agent Expertise: Hands-on experience in developing or deploying AI agents, including frameworks such as LangChain.
• Front-End Experience: Familiarity with React and TypeScript to contribute to end-to-end solutions.
• Developer Experience: Track record of creating robust developer tools, documentation, or frameworks that enable rapid adoption and ease of use.

Practicalities

• Fully Remote position - you'll have team members from around the world. 
• Screening call from the hiring manager, followed by code exam and a team interview.