Principal Architect

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Lead innovative technical initiatives in AI products, architecting scalable systems that leverage state-of-the-art LLM technologies while mentoring junior engineers.
How We Work: Core Principles at ASAPP At ASAPP, our mission is simple: deliver the best AI-powered customer experience—faster than anyone else. To achieve that, we’re guided by principles that shape how we think, build, and execute. We value customer obsession, purposeful speed, ownership, and a relentless focus on outcomes. We work in tight, skilled teams, prioritize clarity over complexity, and continuously evolve through curiosity, data, and craftsmanship.  We’re seeking technologists and problem solvers who thrive in fast-paced environments, love collaborating with great talent, and approach every day like it’s Day 1. We're a globally diverse team with hubs in New York City, Mountain View, Latin America, and India. If you're driven by continuous learning, rapid pivots, and the challenges of building in a high-growth startup, we’d love to talk. This is more than a job—it’s a journey. ASAPP’s Generative Agent team is seeking an enterprising, experienced and curious ML engineer to help lead major technical initiatives and explorations. This role will be focused on building our products, being a technical leader for teams that are architecting and engineering systems, and straddling between engineering and research to bring in innovations. Candidates should have demonstrated skill in architecting and creating scalable production-grade products that are built around LLMs, with intimate knowledge of technical details from data pipelines to modeling and the design of features that leverage model capabilities. Candidates will be expected to regularly interface with Research teams and should be comfortable charting out research roadmaps and brainstorming ideas. Additionally, candidates should be comfortable providing technical leadership, mentoring for junior engineers and would be expected to be hands-on in the development process. What you'll do
  • Play a major role in building products leveraging the latest innovations around LLMs and agentic systems
  • Work closely with teams across ASAPP, including Product, Research and Platform / Infrastructure
  • Keep up with and apply the latest innovations from the NLP / Speech community that could impact our product
  • Required Qualifications
  • Strong architectural skills, with proven experience designing complex software systems
  • Strong engineering skills, with at least an intermediate level skill in Python
  • Demonstrated ability in leading technical teams
  • Experience implementing technical solutions, tackling tough engineering problems to help build our products
  • Experience building and deploying production ML models to solve real-world problems
  • Experience bringing cutting-edge innovation to production 
  • A Master’s Degree in a field of science, technology, engineering or math, or equivalent hands-on experience 
  • Desire to learn new things, work closely with peers from different teams, and open to teach and learn from others
  • Nice to Have
  • A Masters degree in CS and / or at least 15 years of experience building scalable enterprise software
  • Experience building AI products for the enterprise market
  • A publication record in NLP
  • Benefits include:

    Competitive compensation with stock options
    Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance401k matching
    Fitness and wellness stipend
    Mental well-being benefits
    Professional learning and development stipend
    Parental leave, including adoptive and foster parents
    3 weeks paid time off (increases with tenure) along with sick leave, bereavement and jury duty

    ASAPP is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. If you have a disability and need assistance with our employment application process, please email us at [email protected] to obtain assistance. #LI-AG1 #LI-Hybrid #LI-Remote

    Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

    • Equity Compensation: Competitive compensation with stock options
    • Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance401k matching
    • Learning Budget: Professional learning and development stipend
    • Paid Parental Leave: Parental leave, including adoptive and foster parents
    • Paid Time Off: 3 weeks paid time off (increases with tenure) along with sick leave, bereavement and jury duty
    • Wellness Stipend: Fitness and wellness stipend

    Improve customer experience and radically increase agent productivity at the same time. Make every agent your best agent using ASAPP. This AI-native software platform augments agents, guiding them on what to say, what to do, throughout each interaction.

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    $270,000 – $290,000 per year
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