At Skillsoft, we propel organizations and people to grow together through transformative learning experiences. We believe every team member has the potential to be AMAZING. Join us in our quest to transform learning and help individuals unleash their edge.
Are you ready to shape the future of learning through cutting-edge AI? As a Principal AI/Machine Learning Engineer at Skillsoft, you’ll dive into the heart of innovation, crafting intelligent systems that empower millions worldwide. From designing generative AI solutions to pioneering agentic workflows, you’ll collaborate with internal and external teams to transform knowledge into a catalyst for growth—unleashing your edge while helping others do the same. Join us in redefining eLearning for the world’s leading organizations!
Responsibilities:
Hands-on Principal AI/ML engineer, driving technical innovation
Partner with product owners to define visionary AI features
Collaborate cross-functionally to assess impacts of new AI capabilities
Consult and guide teams to productize prototypes with provable accuracy
Lead research and selection of COTS and development of in-house AI/ML technologies
Evaluate foundational models and emerging AI advancements
Explore new technologies and design patterns through impactful prototypes
Present research and insights to inspire innovation across teams
Guide, design and testing of agentic workflows and prompt engineering
Fine-tune models, validate efficacy with metrics, and ensure reliability
Evaluate and guide synthetic data generation for training and validation
Design and guide scalable data pipelines for AI/ML training and inference
Oversee data analysis, curation, and preprocessing
Collaborate with external partners on AI development and integration
Establish AI design best practices and standards for alignment
Contribute to patentable AI innovations
Utilize and apply generative AI to increase productivity for yourself and the organization
Environment, Tools & Technologies:
Agile/Scrum
Operating Systems – Mac, Linux
JavaScript, Node.js, Python
PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenAI, Anthropic, and friends
Langchain, Langgraph, etc.
APIs GraphQL, REST
Docker, Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure
Sagemaker, NIMS
SQL: Postgres RDS
NoSQL: Cassandra, Elasticsearch (VectorDb)
Messaging – Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS
Monitoring – Prometheus, ELK
GitHub, IDE (your choice)
Skills & Qualifications:
8+ Years of Relevant Industry Experience (with a Master’s Degree Preferred)
Experience with LLMs and fine-tuning foundation models
Development experience including unit testing
Design and documentation experience of new APIs, data models, service interactions
Familiarity with and ability to explain:
Agentic AI development and testing
AI security and data privacy concerns
Synthetic data generation and concerns
Foundation model fine-tuning
Generative AI prompt engineering and challenges
Attributes for Success:
Proactive, Independent, Adaptable
Collaborative team player
Customer service minded with an ownership mindset
Excellent analytic and communication skills
Ability and desire to coach and mentor other developers
Passionate, curious, open to new ideas, and ability to research and learn new technologies
Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their best assets – their people – and build teams with the skills they need for success. Empowering 36 million learners and counting, Skillsoft democratizes learning through an intelligent learning experience and a customized, learner-centric approach to skills development with resources for Leadership Development, Business Skills, Technology & Development, Digital Transformation, and Compliance.
Skillsoft is partner to thousands of leading global organizations, including many Fortune 500 companies. The company features three award-winning systems that support learning, performance and success: Skillsoft learning content, the Percipio intelligent learning experience platform, which offers measurable impact across the entire employee lifecycle. Learn more at www.skillsoft.com.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us.
If this opportunity intrigues you, we would love for you to apply!
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