2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, optimize, and operate high-performance production LLM systems.
- Lead platform modernization, strategic technology changes, refactoring, and architectural design across complex AI-powered applications.
- Develop prototypes, technical story breakdowns, acceptance criteria, and delivery standards for novel AI approaches.
- Improve availability, latency, scalability, efficiency, and reliability in high-volume production services.
- Drive development best practices through code reviews, automation frameworks, and technical documentation.
- Coach and mentor engineers, identify skill gaps, and accelerate technical growth across the team.
- Influence engineering direction and technical practices beyond the immediate team or project scope.
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 related master’s degree.
- 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 at a senior individual-contributor level.
- Experience influencing technical decisions and engineering practices across teams or projects.
- 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, legacy modernization, Salesforce, or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- Remote US work arrangement.
- 401(k) plan with company match, retirement or pension plan, and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Flexible time off, paid parental leave, family-forming benefits, and wellness programs or dollars.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and employee assistance program coverage.
- Flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, and tuition reimbursement.
- Learning and development resources, Appian University, mentorship, leadership programs, and skills-based training.
- Employee referral bonus program and employee-led affinity groups.
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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.