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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.
Washington, D.C., USA
$200,000 - $275,000
Machine Learning
Staff
In-person
201-500 Employees
5+ years of experience

Job Description

Peregrine Technologies, backed by Silicon Valley investors, supports public safety agencies across the US, empowering them with technology to improve operations and decision-making, currently serving over 80 million Americans. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI team, you will be instrumental in delivering value to customers. This team is focused on crafting intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI. You'll unlock entirely new ways for users to interact with the platform, whether through natural language commands or enabling AI agents to handle complex tasks. The role involves scaling the platform to handle terabytes of data from various sources, efficiently querying and notifying users in real-time, and optimizing search algorithms. The tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, Kafka, React, Redux, Mapbox, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Bedrock, Sagemaker, AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Peregrine values empathy, ownership, and collaboration, offering engineers the opportunity to work closely with the team and users. The company is committed to inclusivity and is an equal opportunity employer. The salary range for this role is $200,000 - $275,000 annually, with benefits, equity (if applicable), and bonus (if applicable).


Responsibilities

  • Deliver differentiated value to customers
  • Craft powerful, intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI
  • Unlock entirely new ways for users to interact with our platform—whether through natural language commands or by enabling AI agents to handle complex tasks
  • Shape safe, impactful AI-driven features that help customers solve real-world problems with greater speed and ease
  • Scale our 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
  • Over 5 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 Washington, D.C. and open to working in office

Visa Policy

Open to candidates on a visa


Benefits

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