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Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and evolve distributed services underpinning massive training runs, improve iteration loops for researchers, and apply performance optimization techniques to impact product quality and operational excellence.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (ML Systems & AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Distributed services, AI infrastructure, compute orchestration, and AI-Native Development tools.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Systems, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, ML systems architecture, compute orchestration, performance optimization, containerization, GPU computing, cloud software development, code quality leadership, incident management, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Reinforcement learning, post-training, inference technologies (vLLM, SGLang), training/orchestration technologies (VERL, Slime, Ray)

Technologies

vLLM, SGLang, VERL, Slime, Ray, C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript

Responsibilities

Lead architecture discussions and design decisions for complex ML systems; optimize code performance, testability, and maintainability; drive engineering excellence through tool development and best practices; manage on-call operations and incident postmortems; mentor less experienced engineers; partner with stakeholders on project planning and security compliance.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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