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Senior Software Engineer, AI

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Peregrine

Peregrine creates technology to help public safety agencies make data-driven decisions, power their operations, and maintain strong community relationships. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
San Francisco, CA, USA
$130,000 - $250,000
Machine Learning
Senior
In-person
201-500 Employees
3+ years of experience

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Job Description

Peregrine Technologies, backed by Silicon Valley investors, empowers public safety agencies across the US with technology that improves operations and decision-making. Serving over 80 million Americans, the company partners closely with customers to develop effective solutions that create safer communities while protecting privacy and civil liberties. As a Senior Software Engineer on the new AI team, you'll play a key role in delivering differentiated value to customers. This team is responsible for crafting intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI. You'll be instrumental in unlocking entirely new ways for users to interact with the platform, like natural language commands or AI agents that handle complex tasks.

Your work will involve challenges such as scaling the platform to handle terabytes of data from various sources, efficiently querying and notifying users in real-time, and optimizing search algorithms. The stack includes Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, Kafka, React, Redux, Mapbox, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Bedrock, Sagemaker, AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes. The compensation ranges from $130,000 to $250,000 annually, with benefits, equity, and bonus potential. Join a team passionate about solving hard problems and building impactful software, and contribute to creating safer communities.


Responsibilities

  • Be instrumental in delivering differentiated value to our customers
  • Craft powerful, intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI
  • Unlock entirely new ways for users to interact with the platform—whether through natural language commands or by enabling AI agents to handle complex tasks on their behalf
  • Shape safe, impactful AI-driven features that help customers solve real-world problems with greater speed and ease
  • Scale the platform to handle terabytes of data ingested from a variety of sources
  • Efficiently query and notify users on this data in realtime
  • Optimize search algorithms to serve results quickly

Requirements

Python
Kafka
React
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
  • Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
  • Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
  • Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
  • Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components
  • Understanding of best practices for using generative AI responsibly, with bonus experience applying LLMs to enhance user experience
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams
  • Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and / or in the open-source community
  • Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
  • Solid understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems
  • Strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases
  • Located in San Francisco and open to working in office

Benefits

Equity
  • Benefits
  • Equity (if applicable)
  • Bonus (if applicable)