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Principal Software Engineer (AI)

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Taulia's Commitment

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

It is our duty to create and advance an inclusive company where all Taulians feel they are celebrated. All individuals are welcomed, free to express themselves, and rewarded for showing up authentically every day. By building a team with diverse experience, perspectives, and backgrounds, Taulia will revolutionize fintech.

About the Job

We are seeking a high-caliber Principal Software Engineer to serve as the Technical Lead (TL) and Technical Authority for team AI initiatives. In this role, you are the technical execution leader for the team, owning the technical direction for the team’s scope and ensuring the delivery of maintainable, high-quality AI solutions. You will work closely with the architecture team, contributing to the design of our AI ecosystem. As a master practitioner, you will balance the "How" of sophisticated GenAI—including agentic workflows and RAG architecture—with the operational rigor required for safe and efficient delivery. You will lead by example, breaking down the most complex technical hurdles in the AI stack and raising the technical bar for the entire team.

Scope and Impact

• Technical Authority: You own the "How" for the team’s scope. While you do not manage people, you are the authority responsible for the team’s technical integrity and execution strategy.
• Delivery Excellence: Your success is measured by the team's ability to deliver high-quality, maintainable solutions efficiently and without excessive technical debt.
• Code Stewardship: You are responsible for how the work is built across the team’s domain, ensuring they move fast without sacrificing system health or safety.
• Autonomy: You report to an Engineering Manager (EM) but operate with a high degree of technical autonomy. You are expected to proactively identify and resolve architectural gaps and engineering friction while consulting on team-based and cross-cutting initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Technical Direction & Design: Collaborate closely with the architecture team, contributing to and maintaining the technical direction for the team’s AI scope. Drive designs for AI services that balance time-to-value with reliability, security, and maintainability, ensuring alignment with architectural guardrails and platform constraints.
• Technical Execution & Delivery Enablement: Act as the primary driver of execution on the team. Break down complex AI technical work into executable increments and identify technical risks early. Actively remove engineering blockers such as build/deploy friction, unclear interfaces, and excessive coupling.
• Agent Architect: Collaborate with the architecture team to design and build the AI agents and autonomous frameworks that scale the team’s intent. You are responsible for the logic that allows AI to perform complex, multi-step tasks reliably while ensuring these systems are built for long-term maintainability.
• Quality & Maintainability: Uphold the highest standards for code quality, testing discipline, and AI evaluation. Drive technical debt management and refactoring for AI systems, aligned with business priorities and risk.
• AI Measurement & Reliability (LLMOps): Collaborate with the architecture team and contribute to the evaluation frameworks used to measure model effectiveness and reliability. Define the metrics and observability standards that ensure our AI products stay healthy and "safe" in production.
• Mentorship & Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers to raise the technical bar across the team. Lead technical design reviews and establish reusable patterns so that other engineers can contribute to the AI stack effectively and safely.
• Incident Leadership (Technical): Act as the primary technical leader during AI-related incidents. Direct triage, define debugging strategies, and oversee safe mitigation and recovery plans for non-deterministic AI systems.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

• Proven Technical Leadership: Extensive experience as a Principal Engineer or Technical Lead with a track record of owning technical execution and delivery for complex software teams.
• Advanced AI Product Engineering: Mastery of Generative AI implementation patterns, including agentic orchestration, prompt engineering, and RAG.
• Software Engineering Excellence: Expert-level proficiency in Java and Spring AI Core, with deep knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, and modern testing discipline.
• LLMOps & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Vector Databases, model monitoring, and the infrastructure required to scale AI safely.
• System Design & Risk Mitigation: Strong ability to design for "non-deterministic" outputs, defining constraints and verification processes that ensure AI reliability.
• Communication & Influence: Ability to distill complex AI architectures into actionable plans and clear standards that enable the team to execute with high velocity

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Operational Knowledge: Experience with cost-optimization and latency-reduction strategies for high-volume LLM deployments.
• Fine-tuning: Practical experience with fine-tuning open-source models (e.g., Llama, Mistral) for specific domain tasks.
• FinTech Background: Experience building high-compliance, secure software within the financial services industry.
• CloudOps Infrastructure: Familiarity with CloudOps infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native scaling strategies.

About Taulia

Taulia is a fintech company that is part of the SAP group. More than 2 million businesses in over 150 countries collaborate on our network. Our customers include Airbus, AstraZeneca, and Nissan. We help them and their suppliers access cash when and where they need it most. Some of our customers have improved their working capital by more than $1 billion while making their supply chains more resilient and sustainable. For more information, please visit www.taulia.com.

Compensation

Compensation & Pay Transparency

SAP Taulia believes that pay transparency contributes to an honest, supportive culture and is a vital part of our commitment to equity. The estimated annualized base salary range for this position is $190,000 - 225,000.

This range represents a good faith estimate of the base salary at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined by a variety of factors, including (but not limited to) the candidate’s specific skills, depth of experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

AI Statement

At Taulia, we are embracing Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize our industry and empower our team. We believe AI is a fundamental tool for innovation, efficiency, and creative problem-solving. We are looking for forward-thinking individuals who share our excitement for the future and are eager to learn, experiment, and grow with us in an AI-driven landscape. If you have a curious, adaptive, and collaborative mindset, you will thrive here.

Benefits

Flexible work schedule

Remote-friendly environment

Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)

Comprehensive PTO Structure (PTO, Sick Leave, Bereavement)

Global Parental Leave

Company issued equipment (Laptop, monitor, etc.)

401k with match

Career Development/Pathing

EAP Program/Mental Health Advocacy

Supportive Work Culture

Taulia is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

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