Principal AI Engineer
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Life at UiPath
The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. Were committed to creating categoryleading enterprise software that unleashes that power.
To make that happen we need people who are curious selfpropelled generous and genuine. People who love being part of a fastmoving fastthinking growth company. And people who careabout each other about UiPath and about our larger purpose.
Could that be you
Join UiPath where we combine automation and AI to accelerate human achievement. We are building the future of intelligent automation through agentic automation creating agents that handle complex tasks autonomously. As a Principal AI Engineer you will drive contributions to core components of our platform with a major focus on developing capabilities like Context Grounding ( This essential service provides the foundation for our AI Agents (such as those built with Autopilot and Agent Builder) to understand and interact effectively with enterprise data and applications.
What youll do at UiPath:
Lead the architecture design development and operation of largescale cloud services particularly focusing on AIdriven components of the UiPath platform.
Drive the technical strategy and evolution of system architecture analyzing complex issues proposing solutions and ensuring alignment with business and technical needs.
Take ownership of software deliverables ensuring they meet high standards of quality security scalability performance and maintainability.
Champion and continuously improve engineering best practices across teams including CI/CD testing security and operational excellence fostering a culture of quality and velocity.
Incubate new ideas stay abreast of emerging technologies particularly in AI/GenAI and drive their adoption where relevant to the product roadmap.
Collaborate closely with product managers UX designers researchers and other stakeholders to define refine and execute the technical product roadmap.
Mentor and grow engineers across teams fostering technical excellence conducting design reviews sharing knowledge and helping them advance in their careers.
Actively participate in hiring onboarding and attracting top engineering talent.
Drive root cause analysis and implement longterm solutions for production issues ensuring system reliability and performance.
What youll bring to the team:
A proven track record of 8 years in software engineering including significant experience architecting and delivering complex largescale commercial applications or platform services.
Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering AI or a related technical field OR equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrable experience in shipping commercial products or features leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. Deeper experience with specific Large Language Models (LLM) RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) LLMOps or transformerbased models is highly valuable.
Expertise in key programming languages such as Python (especially with AI/ML frameworks) TypeScript and C# backed by solid objectoriented programming principles and computer science fundamentals.
Deep understanding of data structures algorithms architectural design patterns (e.g. microservices eventdriven) and system design for building highly scalable distributed and reliable platform services.
Significant experience designing building and operating cloudbased systems (Azure preferred experience with AWS/GCP is also relevant).
Strong grasp of multithreading asynchronous programming API design (REST gRPC) and building reliable highperformance cloud services.
Experience with serviceoriented architecture (SOA) microservices and web services development.
Proven ability to provide technical leadership drive technical strategy for platform components mentor engineers and foster best practices (including CI/CD automated testing monitoring alerting and modern DevOps principles).
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g. Terraform).
Ability to work effectively within globally distributed teams.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
Maybe you dont tick all the boxes abovebut still think youd be great for the job Go ahead apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizesand passion cant be learned.
Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role the number of hybrid officebased and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.
We value a range of diverse backgrounds experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity and expression national origin disability neurodiversity military and/or veteran status or any other protected classes. Additionally UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants privacy rights. To review these and other legal disclosures visit our .
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Employment Type
Full-Time
