Principal Software Engineer- GenAI

TITLE: Principal Software Engineer- GenAI

WHAT YOULL DO:

As a Principal Software Engineer on the GenAI team you will drive the technical vision and execution of advanced AI-powered solutions across multiple initiatives. You will design and implement scalable secure and high-performing systems that leverage large language models (LLMs) retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI-driven services. This role requires deep technical expertise hands-on coding and the ability to align multiple engineering teams toward a shared vision.

• Lead technical strategy for GenAI-based products and platforms ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business goals.

• Own the design and implementation of the AI orchestration runtime including agent workflows context assembly tool invocation policy enforcement and execution control.
• Build platform-level capabilities for observability evaluation auditability and cost management across AI workloads.

• Design and implement core AI services including model orchestration inference pipelines and standardized prompt and configuration patterns.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to integrate LLMs and fine-tuned models into production systems.
• Enable product teams to deliver AI capabilities without reinventing orchestration governance or runtime infrastructure.

• Architect and deliver solutions for high-complexity Agile stories across multiple domains ensuring scalability and resilience.

• Mentor and guide engineers on modern AI development practices including distributed systems model deployment and performance optimization.

• Ensure compliance and security in AI solutions including data privacy responsible AI principles and model governance.

• Debug and resolve complex issues in distributed AI systems ensuring minimal downtime and high availability.

• Champion CI/CD and MLOps practices for continuous delivery of AI features and models.

• Participate in hiring and talent development for the GenAI team.

WHAT YOUVE DONE:

• Bachelors degreeor higher education level or its foreign equivalentin Computer Science Computer Information Sciences and/or related field

• Total Work Experience: 7 years (software development) 5 years of strategic leadership experience

• Expertise in AI/ML systems: LLM integration RAG pipelines vector databases and prompting strategies

• Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks (e.g. RAGAS LangSmith evaluations custom benchmarks)
• Hands-on experience with agent frameworks workflow orchestration and LLM runtime systems (e.g. LangGraph Agent Development Kit Agent Framework or similar) including tool use memory evaluation and governance

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND/OR ABILITIES:

• Expert of scalable resilient modern cloud-native microservice development with Python or Typescript

• Excels in the ability to lead teach and guide modern software-development practices across Product Development operating independently with guidance
• Experience building monitoring alerting and observability for maintaining high customer SLAs for SaaS delivered products
• Experience in regulated industries (financial services insurance healthcare) preferred
• Experience with CQRS event-driven architecture and Kafka
• Experience with Terraform/Ansible or other IaC platforms
• Experience with cost controls and usage attribution of model execution
• Knowledge of data security compliance and responsible AI principles
• Experience in Cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures including Serverless
• Proven experience building multi-agent systems with planning tool calling and state management
• Expert with CI/CD to deliver software enhancements to customers with full automation
• Expert in distributed software patterns such as DDD microservices serverless and event-driven architecture

WHAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW:

Travel: 0-10%

Work Authorization: Legally authorized to work in the country of job location.

The Company does not sponsor visa petitions for this position.

Duck Creek Technologies supports a flexible-first work environment and has employees throughout the United States. Based on a fair and equitable compensation philosophy we have five (5) United States pay markets based on regional validated survey market data. The expected salary range for this position is between $136100 and $219600. This position is also eligible for annual bonuses. The final compensation may vary due to the above listed factors and be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.

We also offer a competitive benefits package that includes:

Flexible work environment

Medical dental vision life and disability insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account

Paid holidays vacation and volunteer time

Employee assistance program and other benefits.

The application window will remain open until the position is filled or until a sufficient number of qualified candidates have been identified.

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

Our global company celebrates & leverages the differences each employee brings to the table. Our success is a direct result of an inclusive culture where opportunities to learn from one another occur regardless of title seniority or background. This collaborative and team-oriented approach is at the core of how we operate andcontinuously improve our products services and systems. As such Duck Creek is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants to recruit hire train and reward employees for their individual abilities achievements and experience without regard to race color gender religion sexual orientation age national origin disability marital military or any other protected status.

We strive to be an example to the world of inclusion diversity and equity in all things where employees are free to be their authentic selves in the workplace and in the communities in which we believe in leading by example and are proud of the diversity of our team and our shared commitment to our Core Values: We Prioritize Respect; We Listen; We Care; We Add Value; and We Lead.

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