Tricentis

Principal AI Software Engineer

Tricentis$140K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience with Python in production environments, building scalable systems.
  • 3+ years of experience with language model-based solutions at production scale, focusing on system reliability.
  • Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants, influencing team-wide adoption of tools like GitHub Copilot.
  • Expertise in AI/ML tooling and the GenAI infrastructure landscape, translating technology into production capabilities.
  • Proven track record of building innovative, reliable systems aligned with long-term business needs.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the engineering vision across multiple teams to align with business objectives.
  • Mentor Engineers through structured coaching, fostering their growth as decision makers.
  • Shape engineering culture by establishing standards, improving hiring processes, and growing engineering competency.
  • Partner with VPs and executives to co-create technical strategy and investment decisions.
  • Lead high-ambiguity technical initiatives from problem definition to production impact.
  • Establish standards for AI system quality, testing strategies, and deployment criteria for LLM systems.
  • Champion engineering excellence to drive continuous improvement in practices and developer experience.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape company-wide engineering practices and standards.
  • Access to professional development resources and mentorship.
  • Collaborative and innovative work culture focused on technology and growth.
  • Participation in external events as a recognized voice in the tech community.
Full Job Description
Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Organizational Enablement
  • Define and drive the engineering vision across multiple teams, aligning technology direction with company-wide business objectives.
  • Mentor and develop Engineers through structured coaching, architectural sponsorship, and deliberate investment in their growth as technical decision makers.
  • Shape the engineering culture by establishing shared standards, raising the technical bar in hiring, and influencing how engineering competency is grown across Engineering levels.
  • Partner with VPs of Engineering, Product, and other executives to co-create technical strategy, bringing a long horizon, systems-level perspective to roadmap and investment decisions.


Architecture, Implementation & Quality
  • Define and steward reference architectures, frameworks, and engineering patterns that are adopted org-wide, creating leverage across teams rather than within a single one.
  • Lead multi-quarter, high-ambiguity technical initiatives from problem definition through to sustained production impact, operating effectively without a defined playbook.
  • Identify and resolve systemic, cross-cutting technical issues that span multiple teams or domains - distinguishing the root cause from the symptom and building durable solutions.
  • Establish org-wide standards for AI system quality: testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, safety and reliability patterns, and deployment criteria for LLM-based systems.
  • Publish internal frameworks, design patterns, and post-mortems that elevate engineering practice across the organization; contribute externally through writing, speaking, or open-source where appropriate.
  • Champion engineering excellence as an organizational force to drive continuous improvement in practices, tooling, and developer experience at scale.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise
  • 6+ years of experience with Python in production environments, with a track record of building systems that have scaled across organizations.
  • 3+ years of experience designing, deploying, and operating language model-based solutions at production scale, including demonstrated ownership of LLM system reliability, evaluation, and iteration strategy.
  • Deep, hands-on fluency with AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) as a core part of engineering workflow, and a demonstrated ability to shape team-wide adoption and best practices around these tools.
  • Recognized expertise in the AI/ML tooling ecosystem - including agentic frameworks, MCP, A2A protocols, and the evolving GenAI infrastructure landscape with a history of translating emerging technology into production grade capabilities.
  • Proven ability to build systems that are simultaneously innovative, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business needs - with the judgment to know when to move fast and when to invest in foundations.


Production & Platform Experience
  • Mastery of software engineering fundamentals - architecture patterns, CI/CD, testing strategy, observability, and code quality - and a demonstrated record of establishing these standards at the organizational level.
  • Expert-level understanding of security, privacy, and compliance requirements in AI-enabled enterprise systems
  • Extensive experience with container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure in production, including ownership of platform-level decisions that affect multiple teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to diagnose, communicate, and permanently resolve high-severity production issues involving complex AI systems.


Communication & Influence
  • Exceptional ability to communicate across the full organizational stack - from detailed technical design with engineers to strategic framing with executives - calibrating depth and abstraction with precision.
  • A track record of driving major technical decisions and organizational change through influence rather than authority, including across teams and domains outside your direct scope.
  • Ability to synthesize ambiguity into a coherent technical vision, align diverse stakeholders around it, and sustain that alignment over time.
  • Recognized internally - and ideally externally - as a credible technical voice, someone whose perspective shapes how the organization thinks about hard problems.


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About Tricentis

Tricentis is a software testing company that provides automated testing solutions for enterprise applications. The company's products are designed to help businesses accelerate software delivery while reducing costs and risks. Tricentis was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with additional offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company serves customers in a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, and retail. Tricentis has received several awards for its innovative testing solutions, including being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation for five consecutive years.
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