Software Engineer, Applied AI

About the role

Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address societal challenges with speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform transforms siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence, instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver differentiated value to customers through powerful, intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI.
• Unlock new ways for users to interact with our platform, whether through natural language commands or AI agents handling complex tasks.
• Work on a wide range of complex challenges, including scaling the platform to handle terabytes of data, efficiently querying and notifying users in real-time, and optimizing search algorithms for quick result delivery.
• Collaborate with the deployment team and end-users to iteratively solve their problems.
• Write robust, well-tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users.
• Architect and scale distributed software systems, ensuring they are efficient and scalable.

Requirements

• Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish.
• Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users.
• Thrives on ambiguity and loves tackling hard problems.
• Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components.

Qualifications

• Understanding of best practices for using generative AI responsibly, with bonus experience applying LLMs to enhance user experience.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams.
• Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and/or in the open-source community.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices and comfort navigating large codebases.

Skills

• Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, Kafka
• React, Redux, Mapbox
• PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• SageMaker, Bedrock
• AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, Kubernetes

Benefits

Peregrine offers a competitive salary range of $160,000 - $220,000 annually, along with benefits, equity (if applicable), and bonuses (if applicable).

Pay

$160,000 - $220,000 Annually

Schedule

Full-time

Location

San Francisco