Senior Principal Software Engineer-AI

About the Job :

The Digital workforce team is part of Red Hats Data and AI organization. The team is focused on building and delivering strategic AI agents designed to augment human capabilities accelerate workflows and scale operations across the enterprise.

In this role you will work as a member of a highly dynamic and fast-paced team. As part of the development team youll need to be creative motivated and proficient in architecting and designing cutting-edge applications that leverage Generative AI. You will work closely with different teams stakeholders product owners and program managers to design document and develop solutions. We are seeking talented engineers to spearhead the technology and design of key components within Red Hats Digital Workforce shaping the future of digital agents. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical abilities a commitment to quality and open source a drive for innovation excellent communication and teamwork skills and will excel in a dynamic startup-like setting.

What will you do

Architect design document and develop applications in Python and frameworks like LangChain LangGraph LLamaStack.

Architect and lead the implementation of Agentic AI applications.

Architect and lead the implementation of scalable open-source solutions with distributed computing capabilities using Machine Learning models running on OpenShift AI

Architect and design new features with RAG RAFT GraphRAG InstructLab and their pipelines

Develop and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines

Collaborate with product owners program managers different teams and engineering managers to analyze and clarify business requirements to implement data models and business logic

Mentor influence and coach a distributed team of engineers

Effectively communicate to stakeholders and project team members to ensure proper visibility of development efforts

Review code merge requests from other team members for new features

Build and deploy applications to Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) public clouds i.e. Google Cloud Platform AWS etc.

Ensure non-functional requirements including performance scalability resiliency maintainability security etc. are met according to defined standards

Resolve bugs performance problems and other issues with production applications

What will you bring

Strong experience in a software engineering role

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related field

12 years of professional coding at least 3 years using Python

Excellent communication skills solid written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to communicate effectively in a global team

Demonstrated expertise in designing large scale distributed systems cloud-native architectures and enterprise-grade applications

Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills including performing root cause analysis

Understanding of web application infrastructure and fundamentals like REST and HTTP

Understanding of public cloud concepts and development practices

Experience with LangGraph LangChain Autogen and / or Python / Java-based AI libraries for GenAI applications

Experience with continuous delivery (CD) like to build and deploy pipelines like Jenkins Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) like OpenShift / Kubernetes

Presentations skills and public speaking skills for conferences and demos

Enjoys solving challenging problems and working with emerging technologies

The following are considered a plus :

Experience with AI Agentic frameworks

Experience with MCP servers

Experience working with LLMs

Experience in building Chatbots with Slack

Personal qualities and communication :

Communicate and influence for impact by bringing data to life via clear narratives and / or storytelling

Communication skills and experience in interacting with cross functional business and engineering teams

Capability in undertaking business needs analysis in direct consultation.

Be a self-starter displaying initiative in seeing needs building functionality and leading insights for organizational change.

Capability to develop a detailed understanding of our business requirements.

Excellent communication presentation and writing skills

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from in-office to office-flex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.

Inclusion at Red Hat

Red Hats culture is built on the open source principles of transparency collaboration and inclusion where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized it empowers people from different backgrounds perspectives and experiences to come together to share ideas challenge the status quo and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.

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Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Continuous Integration,Docker,Jenkins,Python,System Design,Agile,C / C++,Go,Systems Engineering,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1