Senior / Lead Member of Technical Staff - AI Research
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and iterate agentic AI systems in collaboration with engineers, product managers, solution engineers, and customers.
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software and end-to-end AI agents or complex AI-driven applications.
- Design and orchestrate systems in which AI agents integrate with human workflows, including tool use, planning, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
- Build and maintain shared system context containing system designs, constraints, and standards for reliable AI operation.
- Evaluate human- and AI-generated code for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Implement and debug model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
- Deploy ML systems using Docker and cloud platforms, and optimize distributed training or inference performance.
- Use AI development tools and advanced prompt engineering to produce reliable, secure, and production-ready results.
Requirements
- Exceptional software engineering skills and strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, and production-quality systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and solid experience with C++ and/or Java.
- Deep ML knowledge with meaningful implementation experience and a strong understanding of ML fundamentals.
- Practical experience with LLMs, agentic workflows, prompting, orchestration, and evaluation for LLM-based systems.
- Hands-on experience building end-to-end AI agents or complex AI-driven applications.
- Experience with deep learning frameworks and implementing or debugging training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
- Experience deploying ML systems with Docker and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Familiarity with distributed training or inference and performance optimization.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to cultivate reliable system context.
- Experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Cursor.
- Competitive coding achievements such as ACM-ICPC wins or experience as a startup founder in agentic AI or LLMs are identified as candidate examples.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The stated base salary range is $172,500–$260,100 annually, or $207,800–$285,800 annually in select San Francisco and New York City metropolitan-area cities; bonus, equity, and benefits are excluded from these ranges.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com