Principal AI Native Software Engineer
About The Position
The Analytics Intelligence Team is responsible for ServiceNow's Conversational Analytics experience, allowing customers to ask questions about their data in plain language and receive high accuracy results. Initial products include AI Data Explorer and Query Generation. The immediate future involves making these products fully agentic, considering semantic layers, knowledge graphs, data catalogs, and universal context engines. We're looking for a Principal Engineer to work collaboratively with other architects and help drive the technical direction for conversational analytics. They’ll need to go deep on architecture whilst also being an outstanding verbal and written communicator across engineering, product and leadership. Bring able to align competing opinions is a necessary skill. The right candidate will be hands on and have a customer mindset, with the ability to rapidly create technical prototypes to demonstrate value. The role will involve coaching other software engineers of all levels, so it’s important they are not only humble but have significant hands-on technical depth.
Requirements
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
- 12+ years building and shipping large-scale, production software systems
- Proficiency in Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL
- AI Native development experience, utilizing coding tools such as Claude Code
- Experience with vector-based retrieval, agentic/tool architectures, universal context engines, data catalogs, knowledge graphs, semantic layers
- Strong focus with customer success metrics, specifically accuracy and associated evaluation frameworks and datasets
- Proven ability to coach other engineers, with the viewpoint of winning and growing as a team
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to flex between deep technical detail and executive-level framing
- Experience with BI/Analytics Platforms and NLQ
- An understanding of the ServiceNow ecosystem, and how it is intentionally different from other tech stacks
Responsibilities
- Build the best cloud-based AI/ML solutions to power intelligent enterprise services
- Collaborate daily with a team of like-minded developers, product managers and quality engineers to produce quality software
- Work with product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, testing and delivery of high-quality solutions to our users
Benefits
- equity (when applicable)
- variable/incentive compensation
- health plans
- flexible spending accounts
- a 401(k) Plan with company match
- ESPP
- matching donations
- a flexible time away plan
- family leave programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
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