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Staff 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.
New York, NY, USA
$200,000 - $275,000
Machine Learning
Staff
In-person
201-500 Employees
5+ years of experience

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Job Description

Peregrine Technologies, backed by Silicon Valley investors, partners with public safety agencies to improve operations and decision-making, impacting over 80 million Americans. They value empathy, curiosity, and integrity, fostering a collaborative environment. As a Staff Software Engineer on the new AI team, you'll be instrumental in delivering differentiated value to customers by crafting powerful, intuitive user experiences powered by generative AI. You will unlock new ways for users to interact with their platform through natural language commands and AI agents that handle complex tasks.

Your work will encompass scaling the platform to manage terabytes of data from various sources, optimizing search algorithms, and enabling efficient querying and real-time notifications. The tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, Kafka for the backend; React, Redux, and Mapbox for the frontend; PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch for data storage; machine learning models in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes for infrastructure. The salary range is $200,000 - $275,000 annually, with benefits, equity (if applicable), and bonus (if applicable). This is a great opportunity to shape impactful AI-driven features that help customers solve real-world problems with greater speed and ease.


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 on their behalf
  • Shape safe, impactful AI-driven features that help customers solve real-world problems with greater speed and ease
  • Scale platform to handle terabytes of data ingested from a variety of sources
  • Efficiently query and notifying 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 NYC and open to working in office

Benefits

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