Principal Software Engineer, Unstructured.io
Data prepping for Large Language Models
Open for applications
Data prepping for Large Language Models
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give organizations access to all of their data.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 10+ years of software development experience, with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex, high-impact projects
- Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, and development best practices. Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive cross-team initiatives. Experience in mentoring and developing technical talent
- Problem Solving: Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle complex, persistent issues
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where business problems and architectural strategies may not yet be defined
Desirable
- Proficiency with Python
- Experience in leading large-scale, multi-team projects
- Expertise in cloud-based architectures and services
- Background in mentoring and growing engineering teams
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead and influence the technology direction for our organization
- As a key player, you will own organization-level architecture and product solutions, mentoring our engineering teams while solving complex software problems
- You will be instrumental in aligning teams toward coherent, scalable designs and mitigating long-term risks
- Architectural Leadership: Own and drive the architecture and design of key product solutions across the organization. Influence and set the technology direction, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Strategic Influence: Lead strategically important projects that involve multiple teams. Provide technical direction and mentorship, fostering a culture of high-quality software development
- Complex Problem Solving: Address significantly complex, persistent, or ingrained software challenges. Develop innovative solutions that impact the entire organization and set new standards of excellence
- Software Development: Actively engage in the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and operations. Deliver high-quality, production-ready code that is both strategic and tactical
- Mentorship & Collaboration: Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers across the organization. Act as a force multiplier, enhancing the capabilities of the teams you influence
- Cross-Team Alignment: Align teams toward simple, coherent designs that meet business and technical objectives. Resolve escalations and proactively mitigate risks, particularly those involving long-term one-way doors
- Organizational Impact: Shape how the organization operates by influencing software offerings and architectures. Ensure that your work has a lasting impact on both current and future projects
Our take
Unstructured.io is tackling a prevalent challenge in AI adoption - the difficulty of integrating complex, enterprise-sized data with Large Language Models (LLMs). The company's platform provides a solution by extracting and staging all data, even that which is in difficult-to-use formats, and making it compatible with LLMs.
Thus, the startup streamlines the time-consuming data preparation process, providing tools for otherwise complex tasks like removing unwanted elements, text concatenation, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It also tailors processing pipelines for specific document types, addressing a critical bottleneck in AI development workflows.
In enabling the seamless integration of LLMs with enterprise data, Unstructured.io's platform has the potential to unlock substantial productivity gains. As of 2023, it boasted over 700,000 downloads, and will continue to develop its pioneering solution to the data preparation bottleneck which will be critical for addressing evolving industry demands.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian S. Raymond
(CEO)Previously worked in Investment Banking at Harris Williams & Co. Prior to this they worked at The White House in the National Security Council and as an Intelligence Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Matt Robinson
(Head of Product)Previously a Machine Learning Engineer at Rebellion Defense, a Solutions Engineer/Director at Primer.ai, and a Data Science Manager at Capital One.
Crag Wolfe
(Head of Engineering)Previously the Director of Engineering at Primer.ai. They also worked at Red Hat as a Python Developer and at Ricoh Innovations as a Web Architect.
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