AI Prompt Engineer

SonarSource Sàrl

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Bochum - Germany

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who is Sonar

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production amplifies developers productivity in concert with AI assistants and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code regardless of who writes it your internal team genAI or third parties resulting in more secure reliable and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community Sonars solutions support over 30 programming languages frameworks and infrastructure technologies. Today Sonar is used by 7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide including the DoD Microsoft NASA MasterCard Siemens and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company users each other and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity dedication thoughtfulness empathy and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar CODE is more than just an acronym its a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar were a group of brilliant motivated and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they dont. Our solutions dont just solve symptoms of problems we help fix issues at the source for all code whether its developer-written AI-generated or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA Switzerland the UK Singapore and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day work on a product they are proud of love what they do and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community were all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better faster.

Your Mission

The Business Technology team is Sonars innovation engine and were harnessing the power of generative AI to redefine productivity and enhance our services. We are looking for a highly skilled AI Prompt Engineer to be a key architect of our intelligent automation this role you will be laser-focused on designing building and optimizing the sophisticated AI agents and prompts that power our internal systems primarily leveraging Googles Gemini and the Glean enterprise platform. You will be instrumental in shaping how Sonar employees interact with AI creating intuitive effective and powerful solutions that solve real business problems.

What Youll Do

    • Architect AI Interactions: Design develop and meticulously refine complex prompts and prompt chains to build robust AI agents within Glean and with Gemini transforming business requirements into functional intelligent systems.
    • Collaborate & Innovate: Partner directly with product managers software engineers data scientists and business leaders to identify high-impact opportunities for AI automation and build the solutions.
    • Optimize for Performance: Rigorously test analyze and iterate on prompt performance. Use data-driven insights to enhance the accuracy efficiency and reliability of our AI agents responses.
    • Build a Center of Excellence: Develop and manage a scalable library of advanced prompts establishing best practices for AI interaction that will be adopted across the organization.
    • Stay Ahead of the Curve: Remain on the cutting edge of advancements in generative AI multi-turn dialogue systems and prompt engineering techniques to ensure our solutions are best-in-class.
    • Troubleshoot & Refine: Act as the subject matter expert for debugging and resolving issues related to prompt performance and AI model behavior.
    • Document for Scale: Create clear comprehensive documentation for all prompts interaction guidelines and agent functionalities to support widespread adoption and understanding.

The skills youll demonstrate

    • Proven Prompt Engineering Expertise: Demonstrated experience in a role focused on creative/technical writing conversation design or prompt engineering with a portfolio of successful projects.
    • Deep LLM Understanding: Strong grasp of Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts machine learning fundamentals and hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini. Experience with enterprise AI platforms like Glean is a significant advantage.
    • Exceptional Communication: A master of language with the ability to craft clear concise and effective prompts that elicit precise responses from AI models. Fluency in English with a strong command of business and technical vocabulary is essential.
    • Analytical & Creative Mindset: The ability to think critically to deconstruct complex problems and creatively architect innovative AI-powered solutions.
    • Technical Acumen: Proficiency in Python for scripting interacting with APIs and building testing frameworks for AI/ML applications.
    • Relevant Background: A bachelors degree in Computer Science Linguistics Communications or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
    • Proactive & Pragmatic Ownership: A highly autonomous results-oriented individual who is comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity. You have a can-do attitude and are self-confident enough to challenge the status quo while actively seeking and providing feedback to elevate the team.

Why You Will Love It Here:

    • Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
    • Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
    • We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai India Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
    • We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our an ever-changing industry new skills are necessary and were happy to help our team acquire them.
    • As the leader in our field our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
    • We embrace transparency with regular meetings cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar:

    • Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic financed by Sonar 3% of gross salary an additional benefit in addition to your salary.
    • Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
    • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
    • Sonar recognizes holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday we will recognize the day on the following Monday.
    • Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
    • Global workforce with employees in 20 countries representing 35 unique nationalities.
    • We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
We Value Diversity Equity and Inclusion:

At Sonar we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds perspectives and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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Bad code is risky business. AI-generated or written by humans, Sonar ensures top-tier code quality & security. Protect your organization from bugs and vulnerabilities that jeopardize customer trust, damage your reputation, and undermine developer experience.

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