Principal Engineer, NLP

$182,700 – $274,000 · Posted 1 day ago

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Summary

Principal Engineer leading NLP innovation at enterprise scale, responsible for developing retrieval-augmented generation architectures, agentic AI workflows, and production language systems that process petabytes of data. Design knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and ontology-aware language understanding systems while optimizing inference for latency and cost. Drive large-scale model improvements through prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning, and mentor senior engineers to establish NLP best practices across the organization.

Data Science Machine Learning Python Agentic AI AI Observability Conversational AI Deep Learning Distributed Computing Distributed ML Infrastructure Embedding Models Entity Recognition Fine Tuning Foundation Models Graph Enhanced NLP Hugging Face Information Retrieval Jax Knowledge Extraction Knowledge Graphs LLM Large Language Models Model Evaluation NLP Prompt Engineering PyTorch Reasoning Systems Reinforcement Learning Relation Extraction Representation Learning Retrieval Augmented Generation Search Engines Semantic Search Spark Synthetic Data Generation TensorFlow Transformer Architectures Vector Databases Vector Search