About Our Team
Our global team supports products that educate and provide electronic health records, introducing students to digital charting and preparing them to document care in today’s modern clinical environment. We have a stable product that we strive to maintain while valuing trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality in our team.
About the Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will drive architectural decisions, set engineering standards, and share your knowledge with engineers in the teams. You will play a critical role in evolving our AI platform—an API that powers a variety of LLM-based use cases such as document search, summarization, diagram generation, entity extraction, and evaluation. This API streams LLM-generated content to clients using Server-Sent Events (SSE).
You will partner with data scientists, and engineers to ensure we’re building reliable, scalable systems that align with our long-term strategy—while also guiding the team in navigating the rapid evolution of the LLM landscape.
Responsibilities
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Define and promote best practices in engineering, including scalability, observability, testing, and CI/CD.
Requirements
What We’re Looking For:
We’re looking for a strategic, hands-on engineer who combines deep technical expertise with a systems-thinking mindset. You enjoy solving complex problems, driving alignment across teams, and building systems that scale reliably in production environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Strong proficiency in backend development (Python preferred) and familiarity with modern AI/LLM tools and frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph).
Way that Works for You
We promote a healthy work-life balance across the organization. We offer numerous well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals to help you meet both your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.
Working for You
We understand that your well-being and happiness are essential to a successful career. Here are some benefits we offer:
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Various Paid Time Off options including Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, and Gazetted Public Holidays.
About the Business
We are a global leader in information and analytics, assisting researchers and healthcare professionals in advancing science and improving health outcomes. We combine quality information and extensive data sets with analytics to support science and research, health education, and interactive learning. At our company, your work contributes to addressing the world’s grand challenges and fostering a sustainable future. We utilize innovative technologies to support science and healthcare, partnering for a better world.
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