Principal Software Engineer, Generative AI Application - 100% remote

$133,300 - $190,500/Yr

Radian Group - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Salt Lake City, UT

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About the position

As the Principal Software Engineer - Generative AI Application's your responsibilities include proprietary, customized-off-the-shelf and as well as third-party solutions with generative AI technologies to enable business lines, service offerings or other. You are responsible for delivering high-quality, standardized, secure and performant code for the value benefit of Radian and our customers. Outside of your software engineering duties, you are expected to make proposals across several teams on their engineering work with generative AI technologies and tools, and helps team members to make informed decisions in alignment with the department strategic plans.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements utilizing generative AI technologies and solutions to the Radian products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features.
• Write code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Demonstrate capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Confidently ship immense or otherwise extremely high-impact features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other members of the organization.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department.
• Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, across several teams in their department.
• Perform other duties as assigned or apparent.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• 5 years of prior work related experience
• Professional experience with React, Node.js and/or Professional experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C# and Java.
• Experience with designing, implementing web application and consuming RESTful APIs in AWS/Azure.
• Experience with Python development, demonstrating a deep understanding of the language and its best practices.
• Experience with LLM tools and frameworks such as OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, prompt engineering, LangChain, LlamaIndex and etc.
• Experience with the machine learning process of retrial augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning and MLOps.
• Proficiency in working with RDBMS and No-sql, showcasing the ability to design and optimize database structures.
• Proficiency in working with vector database.
• A solid understanding in foundation models, custom model training and its lifecycle management.
• Understanding of DevOps processes and you appreciate the value technologies like Serverless, containers and Kubernetes bring to the software deployment and development process.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: anticipated base salary rate from $133,300 to $190,500 based on skills and experience.
• 25 days of paid time off annually, prorated in the year of hire based on hire date.
• 9 paid holidays + 2 floating holiday in support of our DEI culture.
• Parental leave offered for all new parents.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits: Multiple medical plan choices, including HSA and FSA options, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• 401(k) with a top of market company match and immediate vesting.
• Opportunity to participate in Radian's Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Homebuyer Perks program to assist employees in home ownership.