
Principal Software Engineer
ServiceNow4 days ago
Base Salary
$221k - $387k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and productionize AI models, agents, assistants, and reusable skills.
- Rapidly develop MVPs and partner with engineering to deliver reliable production systems.
- Define evaluation criteria, build test sets, and measure solution quality, safety, and reliability.
- Compose secure agentic workflows using isolation, guardrails, controls, and secure harnesses.
- Select and integrate suitable frameworks, tools, models, APIs, and cloud services.
- Develop reusable AI patterns and best practices for the AI Center of Excellence.
- Document how solutions should be used, operated, and evaluated.
- Support the Center of Excellence consulting team across the organization.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping used AI agents, assistants, copilots, or skills.
- Deep hands-on familiarity with modern agent frameworks, agent SDKs, developer tooling, and the SKILL.md skills standard.
- Strong discipline in AI evaluation, including test-set construction, metric definition, and quality measurement.
- Proficiency in Python and experience integrating APIs, tools, and cloud services.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Preferred experience in security or in building AI solutions for security use cases.
Benefits
- Base pay is $221,200-$387,100, plus equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, and benefits.
- Benefits include health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
- Work arrangements may be flexible, remote, or required in office depending on the assigned work location and persona.
- The employee type is regular, with a flexible or remote work persona in North America and Canada.
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About ServiceNow
ServiceNow builds a cloud platform for enterprise digital workflows, covering IT service management, customer service, HR service delivery, security operations, and operations management, plus tools for custom app development. It sells subscription SaaS to large organizations and public-sector agencies to automate processes and connect data across systems. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ServiceNow is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker NOW.