Principal Software Engineer - AI

At Skillsoft, we propel organizations and people to grow together through transformative learning experiences. We believe every team member has the potential to be AMAZING. Join us in our quest to transform learning and help individuals unleash their edge.

Are you ready to shape the future of learning through cutting-edge AI? As a Principal AI / Machine Learning Engineer at Skillsoft, you’ll dive into the heart of innovation, crafting intelligent systems that empower millions worldwide. From designing generative AI solutions to pioneering agentic workflows, you’ll collaborate with internal and external teams to transform knowledge into a catalyst for growth—unleashing your edge while helping others do the same. Join us in redefining eLearning for the world’s leading organizations!

Responsibilities :

Hands-on Principal AI / ML engineer, driving technical innovation

Partner with product owners to define visionary AI features

Collaborate cross-functionally to assess impacts of new AI capabilities

Consult and guide teams to productize prototypes with provable accuracy

Lead research and selection of COTS and development of in-house AI / ML technologies

Evaluate foundational models and emerging AI advancements

Explore new technologies and design patterns through impactful prototypes

Present research and insights to inspire innovation across teams

Guide, design and testing of agentic workflows and prompt engineering

Fine-tune models, validate efficacy with metrics, and ensure reliability

Evaluate and guide synthetic data generation for training and validation

Design and guide scalable data pipelines for AI / ML training and inference

Oversee data analysis, curation, and preprocessing

Collaborate with external partners on AI development and integration

Establish AI design best practices and standards for alignment

Contribute to patentable AI innovations

Utilize and apply generative AI to increase productivity for yourself and the organization

Environment, Tools & Technologies :

Agile / Scrum

Operating Systems – Mac, Linux

JavaScript, Node.js, Python

PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenAI, Anthropic, and friends

Langchain, Langgraph, etc.

APIs GraphQL, REST

Docker, Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure

Sagemaker, NIMS

SQL : Postgres RDS

NoSQL : Cassandra, Elasticsearch (VectorDb)

Messaging – Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS

Monitoring – Prometheus, ELK

GitHub, IDE (your choice)

Skills & Qualifications :

8+ Years of Relevant Industry Experience (with a Master’s Degree Preferred)

Experience with LLMs and fine-tuning foundation models

Development experience including unit testing

Design and documentation experience of new APIs, data models, service interactions

Familiarity with and ability to explain :

Agentic AI development and testing

AI security anddata privacy concerns

Synthetic data generation and concerns

Foundation model fine-tuning

Generative AI prompt engineering and challenges

Attributes for Success :

Proactive, Independent, Adaptable

Collaborative team player

Customer service minded with an ownership mindset

Excellent analytic and communication skills

Ability and desire to coach and mentor other developers

Passionate, curious, open to new ideas, andability to research and learnnew technologies

Our Values

We are passionately committed to leadership, learning, and success. We embrace every opportunity to serve our customers and each other as : one team, open and respectful, curious, and agile.