Principal Architect

Summary

Join ASAPP's Generative Agent team as an experienced ML engineer to lead major technical initiatives and explorations. You will build products, provide technical leadership, and bridge engineering and research to drive innovation. This role requires expertise in architecting and creating scalable production-grade products using LLMs, from data pipelines to modeling and feature design. You will collaborate with research teams, chart research roadmaps, and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate possesses strong architectural and engineering skills, experience with Python, and a Master's degree in STEM or equivalent experience. This is a hands-on role involving cutting-edge innovation and real-world problem-solving within a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.

Requirements

• Strong architectural skills, with proven experience designing complex software systems
• Strong engineering skills, with at least an intermediate level skill in Python
• Demonstrated ability in leading technical teams
• Experience implementing technical solutions, tackling tough engineering problems to help build our products
• Experience building and deploying production ML models to solve real-world problems
• Experience bringing cutting-edge innovation to production
• A Master’s Degree in a field of science, technology, engineering or math, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Desire to learn new things, work closely with peers from different teams, and open to teach and learn from others

Responsibilities

• Play a major role in building products leveraging the latest innovations around LLMs and agentic systems
• Work closely with teams across ASAPP, including Product, Research and Platform / Infrastructure
• Keep up with and apply the latest innovations from the NLP / Speech community that could impact our product

Preferred Qualifications

• A Masters degree in CS and / or at least 15 years of experience building scalable enterprise software
• Experience building AI products for the enterprise market
• A publication record in NLP