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Lead Software Engineer - Generative AI

C3 AI· Engineering
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Redwood City, CA$175k - $219kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead software engineer focused on machine learning and Generative AI, responsible for building infrastructure, tools, and end-to-end ML pipelines within C3 AI's Generative AI team. Collaborates with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to bring large-scale ML models into production and advance enterprise AI applications.

Responsibilities

  • Work across teams to architect robust software engineering solutions and frameworks with cross product impact.
  • Implement and enhance engineering best practices company wide.
  • Build systems and tools to enable and simplify the use of Generative AI technologies in our applications using the C3 AI Platform.
  • Enable scalable end-to-end machine learning pipelines in a distributed system with heterogeneous hardware (GPUs, TPUs, etc.).
  • Work with data scientists to research and implement latest approaches to efficiently train/fine-tune Generative Models.
  • Work with product owners to define and lead the long-term development the C3 Generative AI Suite.
  • Lead cross-team technical design discussions on application architecture, UI components, UX, back-end and third-party integration, and testing.
  • Manage individual project deliverables and mentor junior team members on industry coding standards and design techniques.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields, MS preferred.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience in Python; experience with Java and JavaScript preferred.
  • Proven track record of design and development of full stack web solutions for complex problems.
  • Strong hands-on experience and understanding of data structures, algorithms, profiling/optimization, DRY code, and Object-Oriented and Functional Programming.
  • In-depth understanding of machine learning including deep learning algorithms.
  • Proven track record of applying machine learning algorithms in a production system.
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of projects.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate multi-functionally and improve scalability.
  • Demonstrated interest for Generative AI technology (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, ChatGPT Plugins, etc.).

Skills

Required:PythonMachine Learning
Nice to have:JavaJavaScript

Benefits

  • C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
Last updated Jul 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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