Principal Software Engineer, Seismic
AI/Search
+ Equity + Bonus
Enterprise sales enablement software
Open for applications
Enterprise sales enablement software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower thousands of teams to grow and win.
Role
Who you are
- Experience : 12+ years of experience (or 8+ years with advanced degree) in delivering quality software solutions and information retrieval systems. A proven track record of building search and discovery products, and leading technical efforts
- Technical Expertise: Experience with C# and .NET, unit testing, object-oriented programming, and relational databases
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), event driven architectures with tools like Kafka, feature management (Launch Darkly) is good to have. Front-end/full stack experience a plus
- Cloud Expertise: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure. Knowledge of cloud-native services for AI/ML, data storage, and processing. Experience deploying containerized applications into Kubernetes is a plus
- Search/retrieval platforms: Expertise in search platforms like ElasticSearch, Apache Solr, or similar a plus
- Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), large language models, semantic search and understanding of text processing techniques. Proficiency in building and deploying Generative AI use cases
- SaaS Knowledge: Extensive experience in SaaS application development and cloud technologies, with a deep understanding of modern machine learning technologies and operational infrastructure
- Product Development: Experience in collaborating with product management and design, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions that drive successful delivery
- Leadership Skills: Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve their full potential
- Open minded to other perspectives and persuasive to help align different teams and viewpoints (“strong opinions, loosely held.”)
- Strategic Mindset: Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with a strategic mindset and the ability to develop a strong point of view and drive vision forward
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Fast-paced Environment: Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, preferably in a SaaS or technology-driven company
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer for AI-driven Search, you will play a crucial role in shaping the AI-first, multi-domain and multi-modality content discovery and content curation strategy and driving the development of innovative technical solutions across our platform
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, architect, build, and integrate advanced AI search capabilities that enhance our product offerings and deliver exceptional value to our customers
- This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our company’s growth and success by leading AI-powered technology and architectural initiatives and ensuring their alignment with our business objectives
- Technology and Architecture Development: Define and drive the AI search technology and architectural directions, ensuring alignment with business goals and product roadmaps
- AI Search Use Case Development: Work hands-on with Data Scientists and Search Engineers to build AI-first content discovery and content curation applications, assessing tradeoffs and evaluating options to deliver high-quality and high-value solutions
- Integration: Lead the integration of AI search capabilities across the Seismic platform, including data foundation, conversational intelligence, video analysis, content management, and discovery systems
- Technical Leadership: Provide strong technical leadership and guidance to the data science and engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
- Stay abreast of the latest trends and techniques in AI and ML, conducting research and experimentation to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge
- Product Innovation: Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI-driven search enhancements and collaborate on AI search product roadmap development
- Performance Optimization: Define and analyze key metrics to measure the success of AI search initiatives, ensuring high-quality, high-performance, scalable, and reliable
- Propose technical solutions and align technical teams across different departments to deliver value to customers
Our take
Seismic is a sales enablement software used by 100s of large companies to help them improve sales and marketing efforts.
Sales enablement — that is, resources that help teams close deals more effectively — is a market that's growing strongly, as companies look to improve the productivity of their teams by using data. Seismic leverages machine learning to automate key parts of the sales and marketing cycle and to personalize documents for individual sales reps.
With substantial rounds of funding behind it, Seismic has been living up to its name by being announced as a Global Leader in its sector in late 2022 by Forrester Research. With a number of acquisitions that complement its services, Seismic has been savvy in its navigation of a prolonged period of growth.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
31% female employees
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2021
$170m
SERIES G
Sep 2020
$92m
SERIES F
Total funding: $446.5m
Company benefits
- Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and holiday benefits, including an end-of-year company shutdown
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedule
- Seismic Cares employee volunteer program
- #OneSeismic culture that celebrates wins, encourages autonomy, ownership, and transparency
Company values
- We are inclusive
- We seek to understand
- We champion the customer
- We are vulnerable
- We strive for excellence
- We celebrate success
Company HQ
Carmel Valley, San Diego, CA
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Leadership
Doug Winter
(CEO)Also co-founded Objectiva Software Solutions. Previously served as Chief Operations Officer at EMC Document Sciences.
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