Principal Software Engineer, Knowledge Platform
About The Position
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our AI knowledge team. The knowledge team builds and maintains our multi-million node knowledge graph, which powers Dataminr's real-time event detection and alerting platform. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will apply your experience in software engineering, data engineering, and AI to shape the future of Dataminr's knowledge platform. This US-based role can be remote or based out of our New York City office. AI Innovation at Dataminr Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold. Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here. Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.
Requirements
- M.S. in Computer science.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven track record of implementing and following strong engineering practices through hands-on coding
- Experience mentoring and/or influencing Sr and Jr engineering team members in evolving their skills as software engineers
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, and Scala.
- Experience with data engineering and ETL pipelines.
- Experience with cloud and distributed systems.
Nice To Haves
- Ph.D. studies in any field is a plus.
- Prior experience working with knowledge graphs is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead multi-team initiatives supporting the development of Dataminr's Knowledge Platform.
- Implement industry best practices along with novel patterns and technologies that will help improve the codebase and the product.
- Develop pipelines and services for building and maintaining our massive-scale knowledge graph.
- Work with other software engineers, data scientists and AI researchers in cross-functional teams to develop new capabilities that fuse knowledge and AI for automated alerting at scale.
- Develop and apply AI solutions that automate data quality assessments and updates to the knowledge graph.
- Develop solutions for knowledge graph data access and management, which includes the use of GenAI/LLMs.
- Work on applications of AI over the knowledge graph.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
