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 and data 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, and ability to research and learn new technologies
  
  

More About Skillsoft

Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.

Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.

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If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!

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