2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, optimize, and operate high-performance production LLM systems.
- Lead platform modernization, code refactoring, and strategic technology changes across the Appian codebase and AI systems.
- Use AI coding tools to generate, review, evaluate, and improve production code.
- Drive technical story breakdowns, acceptance criteria, architecture, prototyping, and delivery for complex AI-powered applications.
- Improve product availability, latency, scalability, efficiency, and reliability through advanced systems engineering and tuning.
- Promote engineering best practices, conduct detailed code reviews, and build automation frameworks to prevent recurring problems.
- Coach and mentor engineers at multiple levels and own technical growth initiatives.
- Share technical expertise through cross-department communication and permanent engineering documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical or analytical discipline; equivalent experience is not accepted in lieu of a degree.
- 10+ years of relevant software development experience with a bachelor's degree, or 8+ years with a master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Deep hands-on experience designing and operating production LLM systems.
- Expertise in code generation, agents, retrieval, structured generation, tool use, model routing, evaluation, and observability.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and evaluating, coaching others on, and selectively applying AI-generated code in production.
- Strong distributed-systems, API, security, and reliability foundations with senior individual-contributor capability.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions and engineering practices across teams.
- Experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining high-volume, mission-critical production services.
- Exceptional ability to communicate technical architectures verbally, visually, and in writing.
- Preferred experience with compilers, program analysis, formal or executable specifications, or legacy modernization.
- Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $200,000—$350,000 USD and potential discretionary bonus.
- 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, employee referral bonus, learning and development resources, and possible equity awards.
- Employee Assistance Program, Employee Stock Purchase Program, retirement or pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, and family-forming benefits, varying by country.
- Training, mentorship, Appian University, leadership and skills-based development programs, tuition reimbursement, and a First-Friend onboarding program.
- Based at Appian headquarters in McLean, Virginia, with an expectation of working in the office five days per week.
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About Appian
Appian builds a low-code platform for process automation, case management, and data orchestration, used by large enterprises and government agencies to design and run mission-critical workflows. It sells subscriptions and services for cloud and on-premise deployments, spanning BPM, RPA, process mining, and AI-enabled capabilities. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Appian is a public company listed on NASDAQ.